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Star Blizzard hackers abuse WhatsApp to target high-value diplomats
2025-01-19 15:23

Russian nation-state actor Star Blizzard has been running a new spear-phishing campaign to compromise WhatsApp accounts of targets in government, diplomacy, defense policy, international...

Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts
2025-01-16 19:15

FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says Star Blizzard, a prolific phishing crew backed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), conducted a new campaign aiming to...

Russian Star Blizzard Targets WhatsApp Accounts in New Spear-Phishing Campaign
2025-01-16 18:12

The Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims' WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in...

Secret Blizzard Deploys Kazuar Backdoor in Ukraine Using Amadey Malware-as-a-Service
2024-12-11 18:02

The Russian nation-state actor tracked as Secret Blizzard has been observed leveraging malware associated with other threat actors to deploy a known backdoor called Kazuar on target devices...

Midnight Blizzard Escalates Spear-Phishing Attacks On Over 100 Organizations
2024-10-31 18:10

Russian hackers, known as Midnight Blizzard, launch targeted spear-phishing on U.S. officials, exploiting RDP files to gain access to data.

US Government, Microsoft Aim to Disrupt Russian threat actor ‘Star Blizzard’
2024-10-07 13:35

Read more about the U.S. Department of Justice and Microsoft’s efforts to interrupt the activities of Russian-based threat actor Star Blizzard, and learn how to protect from this threat.

100+ domains seized to stymie Russian Star Blizzard hackers
2024-10-04 11:07

Microsoft and the US Justice Department have seized over 100 domains used by Star Blizzard, a Russian nation-state threat actor. “Between January 2023 and August 2024, Microsoft observed Star...

DOJ, Microsoft seize 107 domains used in Russia's Star Blizzard phishing attacks
2024-10-03 16:00

Winter is coming The US Department of Justice and Microsoft have seized 107 websites used by Russian cyberspies in a phishing campaign to steal sensitive information from US government agencies,...

U.S. Offers $10 Million for Info on Russian Cadet Blizzard Hackers Behind Major Attacks
2024-09-09 04:33

The U.S. government and a coalition of international partners have officially attributed a Russian hacking group tracked as Cadet Blizzard to the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)...

Midnight Blizzard delivered iOS, Chrome exploits via compromised government websites
2024-08-29 13:11

Suspected Russian hackers have been hitting iPhone and Android users visiting government websites with exploits first leveraged by commercial surveillance vendors, Google TAG researchers shared....