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Recent reports from a team of Microsoft information security specialists claim that a group of Russian hackers, sponsored by the Kremlin, is deploying a cyberattack campaign against the IT infrastructure of at least 16 sports and anti-doping organizations around the world, in a campaign related to the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The attacks have been […]
As Japan gears up for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the next year, the country needs to brace itself for sophisticated cyberattacks, especially from state-sponsored hackers. Microsoft has issued a short notice, warning about a new wave of highly targeted cyberattacks by a group of Russian state-sponsored hackers attempting to hack over […]
Relevant information on the most recent threat of this dangerous hacking group Recently, the findings of digital forensics specialists have been published on a new cyberattack campaign launched by the renowned group of malicious hackers called Sednit (also known as Fancy Bear). The investigation has concluded that this is the first malware that successfully infects the firmware […]
Cisco’s Talos researchers have identified that Russia’s VPNfilter is way more dangerous than it is believed to be. The malware, which prompted the FBI to urge people to reboot their internet routers, contains seven additional third-stage modules that are infecting countless global networking devices since 2016. The infected devices are mainly located in Ukraine as […]
VPNFilter malware was part of a nasty botnet that infected over half a million devices in over 54 countries. Last Wednesday, The US Justice Department revealed how the FBI seized a domain that was hosting a botnet of 500,000 compromised home and office (SOHO) routers and network-access storage (NAS) devices in over 54 countries – These devices were developed by Linksys, TP-Link, MikroTik, and NETGEAR. […]
Security researchers at Netscout’s Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) have claimed that the seemingly harmless software LoJack, which is an anti-computer theft program, is actually serving as an espionage facilitator. As per the report published on Tuesday, LoJack is actually plagued with malware that is suspected to have a connection to the […]
The Sednit group — also known as Strontium, APT28, Fancy Bear or Sofacy — is a group of attackers operating since 2004, if not earlier, and whose main objective is to steal confidential information from specific targets. This article is a follow-up to ESET’s presentation at BlueHat in November 2017. Late in 2016 we published a white paper covering Sednit activity […]
AS DANGEROUS AS they may be, the Kremlin-linked hacking group known as APT28, or Fancy Bear, gets points for topicality. Last year, the group hacked the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign with shrewd, politically savvy timing. Now, those same hackers seem to be exploiting last week’s ISIS attack in New York City to advance […]
Fancy Bear (1) or APT28 (2) is a Russia hacker collective; its claim to fame is the hacking of French television TV5 Monde (3), Democratic National Committee (4) and Clinton’s emails (5), which laid devastating impact on the US presidential elections last year. The same team reportedly is involved in spying upon high-value guests visiting […]
What is Fancy Bear Hacker Group? Fancy Bear Hacker Group (also known as APT28, Mortgage Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit and Strontium) is a computer espionage group. The cyber security CrowdStrike Rama said with a medium level of confidence that is associated with the Agency of Russian military companies GRU.Security intelligence SecureWorks, ThreatConnect FireEye and Mandiant […]
Microsoft used the lawsuit to disrupt a large number of cyber espionage campaigns conducted by infamous Fancy Bear APT hacking group We have discussed several times about hacking back and the case we are going to analyze is a good example of an alternative approach to hit back an APT group. Microsoft used the lawsuit to disrupt […]
A hacking group from Russia used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against […]