Tag: russia
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Malicious Twitch Extension Exposes 31,000 Users’ OAuth Tokens
Socket has discovered a Twitch browser extension forwarding users’ OAuth tokens to a Russian bot service First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malicious-twitch-extension-oauth/
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PaperCut Flaw Compromise Illustrates the Maturing Use of AI By Attackers
A likely Russian bad actor used multiple AI tools and hundreds of AI agents to exploit two vulnerabilities in PaperCut software to attack hundreds of companies in 48 countries, the latest example of the growing maturity in the use of AI by adversaries. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/papercut-flaw-compromise-illustrates-the-maturity-use-of-ai-by-attackers/
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Sandworm-Linked Cyclops Blink Returns With Network Scanning and Packet-Sniffing Capabilities
A newly identified Cyclops Blink variant has resurfaced on compromised Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) appliances, adding active internal-network scanning and programmable packet-sniffing capabilities to an already mature modular implant. Assessed with high confidence that the activity has a Russian nexus, with a moderate-confidence link to IRON VIKING also tracked as Sandworm and Seashell…
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Malicious Twitch Browser Extension Leaks OAuth Tokens From Nearly 31,000 Users
A malicious cross-store Twitch browser extension has leaked OAuth tokens associated with nearly 31,000 users to proxy servers operated by a Russian commercial bot service.The extension, named “Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot,” lists HISHIMIRO/jeetbot.cc as its developer and has the following identifiers on the Google Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Firefox Add-Ons store – Chrome…
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Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps
Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abused-claude-to-extract-secrets-from-18m-android-apps/
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AI Agents Used in PaperCut Attacks on 395 Organizations
GreyNoise Says Attacker Used Hundreds of Agents in 48-Country Campaign. A likely Russian-speaking attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit PaperCut systems, compromising at least 440 systems at 395 organizations in 48 countries. GreyNoise said the attacker used the agents to develop exploits, find targets and attack systems in parallel. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection
Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve.The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where “GTG” stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader reporting linking…
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Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations
Anthropic detected and disrupted a Russia-linked cyber-espionage group that used its AI tool Claude in a hacking campaign targeting more than 20 government, intelligence, diplomatic and defense organizations. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/anthropic-russia-hackers-claude
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Hackers Weaponize AI Safety Guardrails to Hide Malware From LLM-Powered Security Scanners
Threat actors are adapting malware not only for conventional endpoint defenses and sandboxes, but also for large language model-powered tools increasingly used to triage suspicious code. ESET researchers linked the activity to Russia-aligned threat actor UAC-0099, which used the method during an attack against an organization in Ukraine. The group inserted a safety-sensitive, weapon-related request…
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AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds
The report details a Russian-aligned espionage campaign against more than 20 organizations, an exploit foundry run by Chinese undergraduates and ShinyHunters-affiliated breaches, among other disrupted operations. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/anthropic-report-ai-enabled-cyber-attacks/
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Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries says DDoS attack delayed payments to sellers
Wildberries told several Russian media outlets earlier this week that payments to some sellers were delayed by security measures introduced after a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeted systems used to track and withdraw their earnings. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russian-e-commerce-giant-wildberries-says-payments-disrupted
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PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF and break into hundreds of instances.According to independent reports from Blackpoint Cyber and GreyNoise, the activity originates from “45.142.193[.]132,” an IP address that has been linked…
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Hackers Deploy Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440 PaperCut Servers
Tags: ai, authentication, cve, cyber, exploit, flaw, hacker, intelligence, russia, threat, vulnerabilityThreat intelligence firm GreyNoise has identified an AI-driven intrusion campaign, likely orchestrated by a Russian-speaking threat actor, that compromised at least 440 PaperCut NG/MF servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries. This campaign began on August 31, 2026, exploiting two vulnerabilities in PaperCut: CVE-2026-81578, an authentication bypass flaw, and CVE-2026-82078, a vulnerability that allows unsafe…
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Condé Nast Data of 32.8 Million Users Offered for Sale After WIRED Leak
Condé Nast user data from 32.8 million accounts is reportedly for sale, raising risks of targeted phishing, fraud and scams. A database said to contain 32.8 million Condé Nast user records is being offered for $15,000 on a Russian-language cybercrime forum. Ransomnews reviewed a 5,000-record sample and concluded that it is consistent with genuine Condé…
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Russian Hackers Deploy New HOOKEDGE Backdoor in Espionage Attacks Across Europe
Russian state-sponsored threat actor BlueDelta, also tracked as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Forest Blizzard, has deployed a lightweight Windows backdoor named HOOKEDGE in espionage operations targeting government, diplomatic, and defense-manufacturing organizations across Europe. The activity, documented by PolySwarm, targeted entities in Romania, Spain, and Turkey between late September 2025 and early April 2026. New variants…
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QA: Viasat Tests Satellite Resilience With AI as Cyber Expert Warns an Attack Could ‘Hurt an Entire Country’
Tags: ai, attack, communications, country, cyber, data-breach, network, resilience, russia, ukraine, vulnerabilityAn AI-assisted platform has been used to test whether Viasat’s satellite communications links can meet operational thresholds under interference and adversarial jamming. Announced this month, the work with Atalanta has renewed scrutiny of the vulnerabilities exposed by Russia’s 2022 attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network, which disrupted communications across Ukraine and several European countries. Gil Baram,…
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Russian data centers face new security requirements amid Ukraine’s drone threats
Russia’s data centers are concentrated in areas increasingly exposed to Ukrainian drone attacks. The Kremlin wants them to stiffen their physical defenses. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-data-centers-ukraine-drone-threats
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Protecting Against Zero-Click Attacks
By Aimee Steele, threat intelligence analyst at Talion Cyber Security Last month, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an advisory around a new phishing campaign targeting organisations in the West that was being carried out by the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Laundry Bear. The campaign, saw the threat actors exploiting a…
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Breach Roundup: FBI Probes Sale of 153 Million Driver’s Licenses
Also, Dropbox Accounts Breached, BGP Hijack Compromises Virtualizor Servers. This week: a massive breach of U.S. driver’s licenses, Dropbox accounts breached, a BGP hijack, Artifactory flaw, Russian national indicted, Aesto health breach, a new U.S. Coast Guard cybersecurity policy office, Morocco denied a security breach and a Brazilian illicit marketplace. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Breach Roundup: FBI Probes Sale of 153 Million Driver’s Licenses
Also, Dropbox Accounts Breached, BGP Hijack Compromises Virtualizor Servers. This week: a massive breach of U.S. driver’s licenses, Dropbox accounts breached, a BGP hijack, Artifactory flaw, Russian national indicted, Aesto health breach, a new U.S. Coast Guard cybersecurity policy office, Morocco denied a security breach and a Brazilian illicit marketplace. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Breach Roundup: FBI Probes Sale of 153 Million Driver’s Licenses
Also, Dropbox Accounts Breached, BGP Hijack Compromises Virtualizor Servers. This week: a massive breach of U.S. driver’s licenses, Dropbox accounts breached, a BGP hijack, Artifactory flaw, Russian national indicted, Aesto health breach, a new U.S. Coast Guard cybersecurity policy office, Morocco denied a security breach and a Brazilian illicit marketplace. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Breach Roundup: FBI Probes Sale of 153 Million Driver’s Licenses
Also, Dropbox Accounts Breached, BGP Hijack Compromises Virtualizor Servers. This week: a massive breach of U.S. driver’s licenses, Dropbox accounts breached, a BGP hijack, Artifactory flaw, Russian national indicted, Aesto health breach, a new U.S. Coast Guard cybersecurity policy office, Morocco denied a security breach and a Brazilian illicit marketplace. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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412,000 The Town 2025 Ticket Buyers’ Data Hits the Dark Web
412,000 The Town 2025 festival buyer records are being sold for $10,000, with Brazil’s data openly marketed for bank fraud, loans and SIM registration. A seller on a Russian-language data-trading forum listed what they’re calling a Ticketmaster database on September 2, claiming over 412,000 Latin American purchase records with a heavy concentration of Brazilian data.…
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Russian man indicted for spreading malware to 80,000 freelancers
A Russian national accused of using fake accounts on a freelance employment platform to spread malware to approximately 80,000 users has been indicted by a federal grand jury … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/03/russian-national-indicted-freelance-platform-malware/
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2,000 Leaked Documents Reveal How Russia Turns Engineering Students Into GRU Cyber Operators
2,000 leaked files expose Bauman University’s hidden Department No. 4, which trained GRU-linked hackers and propagandists linked to APT28 and Sandworm. Leaked Documents Expose Bauman University’s Hidden Department That Trained Hackers, Propagandists, and Malware Developers for the GRU More than 2,000 internal documents from Bauman Moscow State Technical University have been reviewed by an international…
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2,000 Leaked Documents Reveal How Russia Turns Engineering Students Into GRU Cyber Operators
2,000 leaked files expose Bauman University’s hidden Department No. 4, which trained GRU-linked hackers and propagandists linked to APT28 and Sandworm. Leaked Documents Expose Bauman University’s Hidden Department That Trained Hackers, Propagandists, and Malware Developers for the GRU More than 2,000 internal documents from Bauman Moscow State Technical University have been reviewed by an international…
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2,000 Leaked Documents Reveal How Russia Turns Engineering Students Into GRU Cyber Operators
2,000 leaked files expose Bauman University’s hidden Department No. 4, which trained GRU-linked hackers and propagandists linked to APT28 and Sandworm. Leaked Documents Expose Bauman University’s Hidden Department That Trained Hackers, Propagandists, and Malware Developers for the GRU More than 2,000 internal documents from Bauman Moscow State Technical University have been reviewed by an international…
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Leaked documents reveal Russian military cyber recruitment pipeline
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/leaked-documents-reveal-russian-military-cyber-recruitment-pipeline
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Global Public-Private Action Disrupts Russia-Linked Sality Botnet
US, European Law Enforcement, Cyber Firms Target Two-Decade-Old P2P Malware Network. U.S. and European authorities, CrowdStrike and Shadowserver disrupted the Russia-linked Sality botnet by exploiting its trusted-peer protocol to isolate roughly 15,000 infected machines and sever a malware network that had operated since 2003. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/global-public-private-action-disrupts-russia-linked-sality-botnet-a-32732
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Russian national facing 20 years for malware campaign that infected 80,000 freelancers
Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev appeared in a San Francisco federal court on Monday after being arrested in Cyprus in May 2025 and extradited to the U.S. last week. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russian-national-facing-20-years-malware-campaign