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Russia’s cyber attacks against Ukraine surged by 250% in 2022 when compared to two years ago, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant disclosed in a new joint report. The targeting, which coincided and has since persisted following the country’s military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, focused heavily on the Ukrainian government and military […]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) this week disclosed that users of the Delta situational awareness program received phishing emails from a compromised email account belonging to the Ministry of Defense. The attacks, which have been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed UAC-0142, aimed to infect systems with two pieces of data-stealing malware […]
Ukrainian radio operator TAVR Media on Thursday became the latest victim of a cyberattack, resulting in the broadcast of a fake message that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was seriously ill. “Cybercriminals spread information that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is allegedly in intensive care, and his duties are performed by the Chairman of the Verkhovna […]
A growing number of threat actors are using the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war as a lure in various phishing and malware campaigns, even as critical infrastructure entities continue to be heavily targeted. “Government-backed actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, as well as various unattributed groups, have used various Ukraine war-related themes in an effort […]
The U.S. government on Thursday released a cybersecurity advisory outlining multiple intrusion campaigns conducted by state-sponsored Russian cyber actors from 2011 to 2018 that targeted the energy sector in the U.S. and beyond. “The [Federal Security Service] conducted a multi-stage campaign in which they gained remote access to U.S. and international Energy Sector networks, deployed […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it has detained a “hacker” who offered technical assistance to the invading Russian troops by providing mobile communication services inside the Ukrainian territory. The anonymous suspect is said to have broadcasted text messages to Ukrainian officials, including security officers and civil servants, proposing that they surrender and take […]
As the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate, the Russian government on Thursday released a massive list containing 17,576 IP addresses and 166 domains that it said are behind a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at its domestic infrastructure. Some of the noticeable domains in the listing released by Russia’s National Coordination Center […]
Reportedly, the Russian government-backed hackers also managed to spy on the emails of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Hackers backed by the Russian government hacked into several US government departments including the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and U.S. Treasury and Commerce. NTIA is an agency of the Department of Commerce that […]
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has allegedly attacked a building that serves as the hub of Hamas’s cyber operations on Saturday. The IDF claims that it has bombed the building after carrying out an operation in collaboration with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Military Intelligence’s Unit 8200. It is also claimed by Israeli […]
Hackers of Chinese origin have stolen data from US Navy contractors whose content includes highly confidential information on advanced military technologies. In June this year, it was reported that Chinese hackers stole 614 gigabytes of US Navy’s anti-ship missile data. Now, authorities in the United States have once again accused Chinese hackers of stealing secret data belonging […]
Microsoft has released a startling report exposing the way Russian military intelligence and its hackers planned to target the US Senate and conservative think tanks. The software giant not only identified but also seized those websites that were recently created for the sole purpose of tricking people. The report reveals that these misleading websites were […]
In January and February 2018, the computers belonging to a U.S. Navy contractor were compromised by hackers backed by the Chinese government – As a result, highly sensitive data was accessed and stolen. The stolen data was related to undersea warfare and includes classified information on future plans regarding the development of supersonic anti-ship missile supposed to be used on […]
Last week the world witnessed cyber-confrontation between Turkish and Greek hackers. On Monday Turkish hackers from Akincilar (Invaders) team hijacked the Greek state-run ANA-MPA news agency’s webpage and posted a message written in Turkish and English with accusations of Greece’s support for terrorists. After that the hackers defaced the official Greek webpage of Japanese automaker […]
We have reported time and again about the widespread malware and espionage attacks that are taking place on Facebook. In fact, it won’t be wrong to state that the social network has become the hub of nation-state spying activity. However, it is the first time that Palestinians have been targeted with Android spyware all thanks […]
Cisco switches at data centers located in Iran and Russia became the target of hackers this Friday. Reportedly, Cisco devices were hijacked through the exploitation of their Smart Install feature. After attacking the vulnerable switches, hackers rewrote their IOS image with that of an image of the US flag and the following message was uploaded: […]
A British surgeon and consultant David Nott was just trying to help wounded Syrians in the war struck Aleppo region by giving out instructions using Skype and WhatsApp. Dr. Nott’s job was to remotely supervise doctors as they carried out surgeries in an underground medical facility namely M10 hospital. Unfortunately, on Oct 3, 2016, that […]
The APT15 hacking group has always been associated with Chinese intelligence and it has been part of quite a few, infamous hacking sprees. Now the same group has allegedly stolen information about UK’s military technology by compromising computer of a UK government contractor and launching a malware-based attack. As per the findings of NCC Group, […]
In its latest report, Kaspersky Lab revealed the findings of its internal investigation, which was launched to dispel the accusations that it has ties with Russian cyberspies and that it helped Russian spies to hack into US’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) contractor’s laptop where Kaspersky’s antivirus was installed. The company initiated a probe into the […]
It’s just another day with just another radio station transmission getting hijacked. This time, unknown intruders compromised the transmission of a short-wave radio station 6400kHz in North Korea to run “The Final Countdown” song by Swedish rock band Europe, released in 1986. This incident took place on November 9th and revealed on social media by a […]
The state of Israel is one of the places whose cyberinfrastructure is continuously under cyber attack from hackers around the world. On November 2nd (Balfour Declaration), a group of Turkish hackers going by the online handle of “Akincilar / Cyber-Warrior” hacked and defaced the official website of “The Times of Israel,” a prominent Israeli-based news website. [squaread][/squaread] […]
Australian defense programs have been compromised, and hackers have managed to steal nearly 30GB of Sensitive Data, stated Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), the national cybersecurity agency. The data was subject to the US government’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations rules, and it got stolen because of hacking of tool used by a defense subcontractor. This […]