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Dr. Web’s cybersecurity researchers have identified an attacker is trying to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in Counter-Strike 1.6 game specifically to distribute Belonard Trojan. Reportedly, about 39% of all the active servers of the game on Steam have been manipulated and compromised to hack the computers of gamers from a remote location. Counter-Strike 1.6, released around […]
Cybercriminals often use torrent services to distribute malicious code since users who look for illegal content usually disable their privacy and security settings on the web as well as ignore system notifications. Resultantly, they fall prey to adware and malware campaigns hosted by popular torrent platforms. The PirateMatryoshka, named after a traditional Russian Doll, is […]
A new bill has been proposed in the Russian legislature that could grant the permission to isolate Russia’s internet from the rest of the world. There is a “Sovereign Internet” bill which seeks to tighten its grip on how information flows in and out of the country. Under this bill, new centralized hubs will be set up to manage (read manipulate) the flow of information or […]
A technology company competing for a Pentagon contract has links to an organization related to a Russian oligarch The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud is a Pentagon project focused on the U.S. defense’s confidential information protection that could ultimately store even nuclear codes. According to experts in digital forensics from the International Institute of […]
An independent IT security researcher and exploit developer from Russia has publicly revealed a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of VirtualBox (VB) 5.2.20 and prior. VB is commonly used open source virtualization software that has been developed by Oracle. According to the analysis of Sergey Zelenyuk, his exploit is hundred percent reliable and memory corruption […]
A few days ago it was reported that a new malware called GreyEnergy has been targeting high-profile industrial and energy sector with espionage and fingers were pointed at Russian hackers. Now, it has been revealed that Petrochemical plants in Saudi Arabia have been on the radar of cybercriminals lately and it turns out that nation-states are […]
After BlackEnergy, critical infrastructure around the world is among key targets of the new malware called GreyEnergy. In its recent research, ESET has revealed details of a new group of cybercriminals dubbed as GreyEnergy, which seems to be the replacement of BlackEnergy APT group. The BlackEnergy group’s last activity was observed in December 2015 when […]
A Russian national namely Peter Yuryeich Levashov has pleaded guilty to operating the Kelihos botnet, which was used to launch a huge spamming and credential stealing campaign across the globe. Levashov, a 38-year old resident of St. Petersburg, Russia, was presented before a Connecticut US District Court and admitted to being involved in a large […]
Cybercriminals part of a notorious hacking group attacked the PIR Bank of Russia and stole $1m. The hacking was carried out after infiltrating the bank’s systems by compromising an old, outdated router. The router was installed at one of the regional branches of the bank. The money was stolen via the Automated Workstation Client (AWC) […]
Feds take aim at potent VPNFilter malware allegedly unleashed by Russia. The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot them as soon as possible to counter Russian-engineered malware that has infected hundreds of thousands devices. Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team first disclosed the existence of the malware on Wednesday. The […]
StalinLocker ransomware gives victim ten minutes to put the code or watch their data being completely erased – There are no ransom demands. Researchers have discovered a new ransomware that pays tribute to Joseph Stalin, the controversial leader of the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s. Dubbed “StalinLocker,” the malware infects targeted devices and gives […]
Last year, major tech companies including Facebook, Google, Twitter were brought under scrutiny for being the platforms used to fuel Russian propaganda related to the 2016 US presidential elections. The companies had to further testify before the Congress. On Thursday, the US House Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff released a massive cache of over 3,000+ ads that Russia’s […]
On May 3rd, 2018, Russia’s media and communication regularity authority Roskomnadzor blocked over 50 virtual private networks (VPNs), Web Proxies and Anonymizers in the country amid its crackdown against the Telegram messaging service. So far, there has been no official announcement from Roskomnadzor but the Russian News Agency TASS has confirmed the censorship and reported that the decision affects those services […]
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google’s cloud infrastructure, the information security researchers said. The following IP blocks have been reported as banned in Russia at the ISP level. The IP ranges account for 1,835,008 IPs. 58.0.0/15 196.0.0/15 194.0.0/15 184.0.0/15 156.0.0/14 192.0.0/12 The number of blocked IPs has […]
If a mere speculation is to be believed, the biometric data of millions of Americans could be at the risk of being compromised by Russian hackers. They could “even compromise wider national security and law enforcement computer systems,” says a detailed BuzzFeed report citing some documents and two whistleblowers as the source. The fingerprints recognition software used […]
Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft all affected by “intentional” BGP mishap. Traffic sent to and from Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft was briefly routed through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider Wednesday under circumstances researchers said was suspicious and intentional. The unexplained incident involving the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol is the latest to raise troubling questions about […]
A series of events happened since last year has proved that internet needs to be taken seriously. There have been reports that Russian government impacted US Presidential elections. It has been known that various Russian government-backed actors tried to influence and disrupt US elections through multiple social networks and other platforms. Facebook is the most prominent of […]
A new widespread Bad Rabbit ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organizations, primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany, in the past few hours. Called “Bad Rabbit ransomware”, it is reported as a new attack against specific Petya ransomware corporate networks, which requires 0.05 Bitcoins (~ […]
In a tale as old as time, the United States and Russia are at it again. Alexander Vinnik, the founder of a cryptocurrency exchange website called BTC-e, was recently ordered to be extradited to the U.S. at their government’s request. However, Vinnik, who is a citizen of Russia, chose to fight against the extradition request […]
According to intelligence experts the recent Zapad drills conducted by Russia simulated an attack on all Baltic countries, it included the use of cyber weapons. Baltic and NATO officials claim Russia was behind outage in Latvia’s mobile communications network before Russia’s war games in September code-named Zapad. According to the expert, Russia may have tested one […]
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian government-sponsored hackers have managed to steal extremely sensitive information about classified spying tools used by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). The information was hacked after an unnamed NSA contractor who is an expert at hacking computers and tracking communications, stored the classified information on his […]