Security News

Russia's top-secret military unit reportedly plots undersea cable 'sabotage'
2024-09-09 20:15

US alarmed by heightened Kremlin naval activity worldwide Russia's naval activity near undersea cables is reportedly drawing the scrutiny of US officials, further sparking concerns that the...

Hacktivists Exploits WinRAR Vulnerability in Attacks Against Russia and Belarus
2024-09-03 13:29

A hacktivist group known as Head Mare has been linked to cyber attacks that exclusively target organizations located in Russia and Belarus. "Head Mare uses more up-to-date methods for obtaining...

What a coincidence. Spyware makers, Russia's Cozy Bear seem to share same exploits
2024-08-29 20:03

Google researchers note similarities, can't find smoking-gun link Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has spotted an interesting pattern: A Kremlin-linked cyber-espionage crew and commercial...

Notion exits Russia and will terminate accounts in September
2024-08-27 18:41

Notion has announced it will exit the Russian market and is terminating all workspaces and accounts identified linked to users in the country. [...]

Russia tells citizens to switch off home surveillance because the Ukrainians are coming
2024-08-21 15:01

Forget about your love life too, no dating apps until the war is over Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs is warning residents of under-siege regions to switch off home surveillance systems and...

Russia blocks Signal for 'violating' anti-terrorism laws
2024-08-09 19:07

Russia's telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has restricted access to the Signal encrypted messaging service for what it describes as violations of Russian anti-terrorism and anti-extremism...

US sends cybercriminals back to Russia in prisoner swap that freed WSJ journo, others
2024-08-02 00:50

At least two Russian cybercriminals are among those being returned to their motherland as part of a multinational prisoner exchange deal announced Thursday. Videos circulating online today showed Seleznev and other freed Russian prisoners shaking hands with President Vladimir Putin upon disembarking the plane that carried them back to their country.

Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+
2024-07-31 20:50

Dozens of Russia-affiliated criminals are right now trying to wrest control of web domains by exploiting weak DNS services. The crooks have already hijacked an estimated 30,000 domains since 2019, by using a technique dubbed Sitting Ducks by cybersecurity outfits Infoblox and Eclypsium.

Cyber Espionage Group XDSpy Targets Companies in Russia and Moldova
2024-07-31 09:37

Companies in Russia and Moldova have been the target of a phishing campaign orchestrated by a little-known cyber espionage group known as XDSpy. A subsequent analysis by ESET attributed the group to information-stealing attacks aimed at government agencies in Eastern Europe and the Balkans since 2011.

Russia’s FIN7 is peddling its EDR-nerfing malware to ransomware gangs
2024-07-18 13:40

Prolific Russian cybercrime syndicate FIN7 is using various pseudonyms to sell its custom security solution-disabling malware to different ransomware gangs. AvNeutralizer malware was previously thought to be solely linked to the Black Basta group, but fresh research has uncovered various underground forum listings of the malicious software now believed to be created by FIN7 operatives.