Tag: russia
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Lengthy disruption of Russian internet provider claimed by Ukrainian hacker group
A multi-day outage of internet services by Lovit, a widely used provider in cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, was claimed by the IT Army, a pro-Ukraine hacking group. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-isp-lovit-outages-claimed-ukraine-it-army
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CVE-2025-26633: Water Gamayun Exploits Windows MMC in Active Zero-Day Campaign
A zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-26633 is being actively exploited in the wild by a sophisticated Russian-linked threat First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/cve-2025-26633-water-gamayun-exploits-windows-mmc-in-active-zero-day-campaign/
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Researchers Uncover ~200 Unique C2 Domains Linked to Raspberry Robin Access Broker
A new investigation has unearthed nearly 200 unique command-and-control (C2) domains associated with a malware called Raspberry Robin.”Raspberry Robin (also known as Roshtyak or Storm-0856) is a complex and evolving threat actor that provides initial access broker (IAB) services to numerous criminal groups, many of which have connections to Russia,” Silent Push said in a…
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Meet the Low-Key Access Broker Supercharging Russian State Cybercrime
Raspberry Robin breaks into organizations and sells access to Russian threat actors, including the military cyber unit behind attempted coups, assassinations, and influence operations throughout Europe. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/access-broker-russian-state-cybercrime
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VanHelsing ransomware emerges to put a stake through your Windows heart
There’s only one rule don’t attack Russia, duh First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/vanhelsing_ransomware_russia/
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Russia subjected to suspected joint Head Mare, Twelve attacks
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/russia-subjected-to-suspected-joint-head-mare-twelve-attacks
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Medusa Ransomware Brings Its Own Vulnerable Driver
Tags: breach, crowdstrike, detection, endpoint, group, hacker, malicious, ransomware, russia, software, vulnerability, windowsHackers Use Stolen Certificates to Bypass Endpoint Detection and Response. A Russian-speaking ransomware group has been deploying a malicious Windows PE driver that imitates a legitimate CrowdStrike Falcon driver to bypass endpoint security, warn researchers. The driver disables endpoint detection and response software by stripping process protections. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/medusa-ransomware-brings-its-own-vulnerable-driver-a-27813
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US Weakens Disinformation Defenses, as Russia & China Ramp Up
Russia and China spend billions of dollars on state media, propaganda, and disinformation, while the Trump administration has slashed funding for US agencies. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/us-weakens-disinformation-defenses-russia-china-ramp-up
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Russian Firm Offers $4 Million for Telegram Exploits
A Russian exploit acquisition firm says it is willing to pay up to $4 million for full-chain exploits targeting the popular messaging service Telegram. The firm, Operation Zero, is known for selling zero-day exploits exclusively to Russian government and private organizations. On March 20, the exploit broker announced on X that it was offering up…
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Trump shifts cyberattack readiness to state and local governments in wake of info-sharing cuts
Tags: advisory, cio, cisa, ciso, communications, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, election, government, group, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, metric, office, resilience, risk, russia, strategy, technology, threatCreating a national resilience strategy The EO requires the assistant to the President for national security affairs (APNSA), in coordination with the assistant to the President for economic policy and the heads of relevant executive departments and agencies, to publish within 90 days (by June 17) a National Resilience Strategy that articulates the priorities, means,…
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Zero-day broker Operation Zero offers up to $4 million for Telegram exploits
Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero is looking for exploits for the popular messaging app Telegram, offering up to $4 million for them. Operation Zero, a Russian zero-day broker, is offering up to $4 million for Telegram exploits, the news was first reported by Tech Crunch. The Russian firm seeks up to $500K for one-click RCE,…
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Kaspersky Links Head Mare to Twelve, Targeting Russian Entities via Shared C2 Servers
Two known threat activity clusters codenamed Head Mare and Twelve have likely joined forces to target Russian entities, new findings from Kaspersky reveal.”Head Mare relied heavily on tools previously associated with Twelve. Additionally, Head Mare attacks utilized command-and-control (C2) servers exclusively linked to Twelve prior to these incidents,” the company said. “This suggests First seen…
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Escalating Ukrainian hacktivist attacks target Russia
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/escalating-ukrainian-hacktivist-attacks-target-russia
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Major web services go dark in Russia amid reported Cloudflare block
Website outages were observed across Russia this week, with regulators attributing them to issues with foreign servers. Observers said the problems might be tied to Russian government moves to block the Cloudflare service. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-websites-dark-reported-cloudflare-block
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YouTube Game Cheats Spread Arcane Stealer Malware to Russian-Speaking Users
YouTube videos promoting game cheats are being used to deliver a previously undocumented stealer malware called Arcane likely targeting Russian-speaking users.”What’s intriguing about this malware is how much it collects,” Kaspersky said in an analysis. “It grabs account information from VPN and gaming clients, and all kinds of network utilities like ngrok, Playit, Cyberduck, FileZilla,…
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State-Backed Hackers Exploiting Windows Zero-Day Since 2017
At least 11 state-sponsored hacking groups from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China have been actively exploiting a newly uncovered Windows zero-day vulnerability in cyber espionage and data theft attacks since 2017. Despite clear evidence of exploitation, Microsoft has declined… First seen on sensorstechforum.com Jump to article: sensorstechforum.com/zdi-can-25373-zero-day-exploited-since-2017/
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New Windows zero-day feared abused in widespread espionage for years
.The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as ZDI-CAN-25373, has yet to be publicly acknowledged and assigned a CVE-ID by Microsoft. ZDI-CAN-25373 has to do with the way Windows displays the contents of .lnk files, a type of binary file used by Windows to act as a shortcut to a file, folder, or application, through the Windows UI.A…
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China, Russia, North Korea Hackers Exploit Windows Security Flaw
Tags: attack, china, exploit, flaw, government, group, hacker, infrastructure, korea, microsoft, north-korea, russia, threat, update, windowsAmost a dozen state-sponsored threat groups from Russia, China, and North Korea have been exploiting a security flaw in WIndows in attacks on governments and critical infrastructure that date back to 2017. According to Trend Micro’s VDI unit, Microsoft has no plans to patch the vulnerability. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/03/china-russia-north-korea-hackers-exploit-windows-security-flaw/
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Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War
Chinese ecommerce giants like Temu and AliExpress sell drone accessories like those used by soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/drone-accessories-weapons-of-war/
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Poisoned Windows shortcuts found to be a favorite of Chinese, Russian, N. Korean state hackers
The Zero Day Initiative measured the prevalence of manipulated Windows shortcut files in campaigns attributed to nation-state hacking groups, finding at least 11 exploited a bug that allows malicious use of the files. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/windows-lnk-files-nation-state-hacking-campaigns
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UK Official Says Russian Disinfo Blocked in 2024 Election
Doppelganger Unsuccessfully Attempted to Distort Election, UK Minister Said. A Russian government-directed foreign influence campaign unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt the 2024 U.K. elections, a British security minister told a parliamentary committee. The government identified disinformation networks linked to Russian influence campaign widely tracked as Doppelganger. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/uk-official-says-russian-disinfo-blocked-in-2024-election-a-27759
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Black Basta Leader in League With Russian Officials, Chat Logs Show
Though the chat logs were leaked a month ago, analysts are now seeing that Russian officials may have assisted Black Basta members according, to the shared messages. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/black-basta-league-russian-officials-chat-logs
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New Windows zero-day exploited by 11 state hacking groups since 2017
At least 11 state-backed hacking groups from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China have been exploiting a new Windows vulnerability in data theft and cyber espionage zero-day attacks since 2017. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-zero-day-exploited-by-11-state-hacking-groups-since-2017/
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Russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol
Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/18/trump-putin-call-ukraine-ceasefire-proposals-european-council-meeting-europe-live-news-latest”>Europe live latest updates</li></ul>Russia and other state actors are driving an increase in politically motivated cyber-attacks and sabotage of infrastructure and public institutions in the EU, the bloc’s police enforcement agency has found.Europol’s 80-page serious and organised crime threat assessment for…
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Microsoft isn’t fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying
‘Only’ a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/microsoft_trend_flaw/
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Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by 11 State-Sponsored Threat Groups Since 2017
An unpatched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows has been exploited by 11 state-sponsored groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as part of data theft, espionage, and financially motivated campaigns that date back to 2017.The zero-day vulnerability, tracked by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) as ZDI-CAN-25373, refers to an issue that allows bad…
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BlackBasta Ransomware Ties to Russian Authorities Uncovered
Leaked chat logs have exposed connections between the BlackBasta ransomware group and Russian authorities, according to new analysis by Trellix First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/blackbasta-ransomwares-ties-russia/