Tag: Russia
SolarWinds Hack Affected Yet Another Tech Giant – Microsoft
The SolarWinds Orion IT management software hack is now acting like a tornado, sucking up everything and growing larger with every passing moment. SolarWinds,...
U.S. Government Takes the Wind Out of SolarWinds’ Sails…for the Time...
Earlier in the week, the White House had acknowledged that a Russian state-sponsored group known as the Cozy Bear or APT 29 carried out...
White House Confirms Cyberattack on U.S. Dept of Treasury and Commerce
The White House on Sunday acknowledged reports that a group backed by a foreign government carried out a cyberattack on the U.S. Department of...
A Tsunami of Ryuk Ransomware Attacks Hits U.S. Hospitals
The latest string of Ryuk ransomware attacks on multiple U.S. hospitals is a cold reminder of a similar methodology implied by WannaCry operators back...
Facebook Takes Down Hundreds of Fake Accounts Under Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
Facebook has taken down two separate networks that originated from China and the Philippines for violating its Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) policy. In an...
Multiple Banks and Telecoms in Hungary Affected in a DDoS Attack
Operations at multiple banks and telecommunication service providers in Hungary were disrupted due to a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack launched from servers located in Russia,...
Russia-based APT28 Targets Election Campaigners and Political Organizations
APT28, also known as the “Fancy bear” or “Strontium” threat group, is reportedly backed by the Russian military intelligence agency GRU and has been...
Tesla Avoids a Cyberattack Bump; Acknowledges the Earnest Employee
Remember the famous dialog from the 1987 movie “Wall Street” where Lou gives a life lesson to the junior stockbroker Bud? Well, for the...
Researchers Issue a Red Flag for RedCurl APT Group
The researchers at Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, have found that a Russian-speaking APT group, RedCurl, has been sniffing through the corporate networks since...
Fxmsp: The Russian Underground Seller Who Made a Fortune
With a target reach of 44 countries, affecting nearly 135 companies and net earnings of more than $1.5 million, meet Fxmsp, the ‘Richie Rich’...
