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Russian hackers, known as Midnight Blizzard, launch targeted spear-phishing on U.S. officials, exploiting RDP files to gain access to data.
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.
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...
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,...
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)...
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....
TeamViewer, the company developing the popular remote access/control software with the same name, has finished the investigation into the breach it detected in late June 2024, and has confirmed that it was limited to their internal corporate IT environment. "Neither our separated product environment, nor the connectivity platform, nor any customer data has been touched," the company says.
The Midnight Blizzard and Cloudflare-Atlassian cybersecurity incidents raised alarms about the vulnerabilities inherent in major SaaS platforms. These incidents illustrate the stakes involved in...
In a joint security alert issued on Thursday, seven agencies* from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the US and the UK, warned about a criminal gang named Star Blizzard and its evolving phishing techniques. Beginning in 2022, Star Blizzard also began prodding defense-industrial targets and US Department of Energy facilities.
The Flubot banking trojan is blanketing Finland, spreading via Android phones that are sending millions of malicious text messages. On Friday, the National Cyber Security Centre at the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency posted a "Severe" alert about the malware blizzard, which it said was spreading via dozens of message variants that are sneezing out Flubot like mad. Once installed, Flubot sets about gaining permissions, stealing banking information and credentials, lifting passwords stored on the device and squirreling away various pieces of personal information.