Romania Cancels Presidential Election Results After Alleged Russian Meddling on TikTok In a historic decision, Romania’s constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election amid allegations of Russian interference. As a result, the second round vote, which was scheduled for December 8, Read more…
FSB Uses Trojan App to Monitor Russian Programmer Accused of Supporting Ukraine A Russian programmer accused of donating money to Ukraine had his Android device secretly implanted with spyware by the Federal Security Service (FSB) after he was detained earlier this year. The findings come as part of a collaborative Read more…
NCA Busts Russian Crypto Networks Laundering Funds and Evading Sanctions The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Wednesday announced that it led an international investigation to disrupt Russian money laundering networks that were found to facilitate serious and organized crime across the U.K., the Middle East, Russia, and South America. Read more…
North Korean Kimsuky Hackers Use Russian Email Addresses for Credential Theft Attacks The North Korea-aligned threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a series of phishing attacks that involve sending email messages that originate from Russian sender addresses to ultimately conduct credential theft. “Phishing emails were sent mainly Read more…
Wanted Russian Cybercriminal Linked to Hive and LockBit Ransomware Has Been Arrested A Russian cybercriminal wanted in the U.S. in connection with LockBit and Hive ransomware operations has been arrested by law enforcement authorities in the country. According to a news report from Russian media outlet RIA Novosti, Mikhail Pavlovich Read more…
Russian Hackers Deploy HATVIBE and CHERRYSPY Malware Across Europe and Asia Threat actors with ties to Russia have been linked to a cyber espionage campaign aimed at organizations in Central Asia, East Asia, and Europe. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, which has assigned the activity cluster the name TAG-110, said it Read more…
Russian spies using remote desktop protocol files to phish • The Register Microsoft says a mass phishing campaign by Russia’s foreign intelligence services (SVR) is now in its second week, and the spies are using a novel info-gathering technique. First spotted on October 22, Microsoft said in a report published Read more…
AWS breaks up massive Russian phishing operation Online retail giant and cloud-service provider Amazon broke up a phishing operation that impersonated thousands of Amazon Web Service (AWS) domains. The AWS security team, along with the Ukrainian CERT-UA blamed the Russian-backed APT 29 group for an attack which used spoofed AWS Read more…
Senator says domain reg firms aiding Russian disinfo spread • The Register in brief Senate intelligence committee chair Mark Warner (D-VA) is demanding to know why, in the wake of the bust-up of a massive online Russian disinformation operation, the names of six US-based domain registrars seem to keep popping Read more…
Russian Espionage Group Targets Ukrainian Military with Malware via Telegram Oct 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Android A suspected Russian hybrid espionage and influence operation has been observed delivering a mix of Windows and Android malware to target the Ukrainian military under the Telegram persona Civil Defense. Google’s Threat Analysis Read more…