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An advanced persistent threat group, with ties to Iran, is believed behind a phishing campaign targeting high-profile government and military Israeli personnel, according to a report by Check Point Software. Targets of the campaign included a senior leadership in the Israeli defense industry, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
People are leaking classified military information on discussion boards for the video game War Thunder to win arguments—repeatedly.
Cyberattacks against Ukraine have been used strategically to support ground campaigns, with five state-sponsored advanced persistent threat groups behind attacks that began in February. From late February to mid-March, another series of wiper attacks using malware called HermeticWiper, IsaacWiper and CaddyWiper targeted organizations in the Ukraine as Russia commenced its physical invasion.
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced up to $10 million in rewards for information on six hackers associated with the Russian military intelligence service. "These individuals participated in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Russian government against U.S. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act," the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program said.
A China-linked government-sponsored threat actor has been observed targeting Russian speakers with an updated version of a remote access trojan called PlugX. Secureworks attributed the attempted intrusions to a threat actor it tracks as Bronze President, and by the wider cybersecurity community under the monikers Mustang Panda, TA416, HoneyMyte, RedDelta, and PKPLUG. "The war in Ukraine has prompted many countries to deploy their cyber capabilities to gain insight about global events, political machinations, and motivations," the cybersecurity firm said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Chief among its tools is PlugX, a Windows backdoor that enables threat actors to execute a variety of commands on infected systems and which has been employed by several Chinese state-sponsored actors over the years.
A Russian cybercrime gang has lately sent credential-phishing emails to the military of Eastern European countries and a NATO Center of Excellence, according to a Google threat report this week. One of these crews is Coldriver, which the Google team refer to as "a Russian-based threat actor." According to Leonard, Google hasn't seen attackers successfully compromise any Gmail accounts in its phishing campaigns.
The Google Threat Analysis Group says more and more threat actors are now using Russia's war in Ukraine to target Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine, in phishing and malware attacks. The report's highlight are credential phishing attacks coordinated by a Russian-based threat group tracked as COLDRIVER against a NATO Centre of Excellence and Eastern European militaries.
Facebook says it took down accounts used by a Belarusian-linked hacking group to target Ukrainian officials and military personnel on its platform. "We detected attempts to target people on Facebook to post YouTube videos portraying Ukrainian troops as weak and surrendering to Russia, including one video claiming to show Ukrainian soldiers coming out of a forest while flying a white flag of surrender," Meta's Head of Security Policy Nathaniel Gleicher and Threat Disruption Director David Agranovich said.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine warned today of a spearphishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The phishing emails are being sent from two domains, the former trying to impersonate the i.ua free Internet portal providing email services to Ukrainians since 2008.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine warned today of a spearphishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The phishing emails are being sent from two domains, the former trying to impersonate the i.ua free Internet portal providing email services to Ukrainians since 2008.