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In interactions with threat intelligence analysts, farnetwork shared valuable details that link them to ransomware operations starting 2019 and a botnet with access to multiple corporate networks. According to a report Group-IB shared with BleepingComputer, the threat actor has several usernames and has been active on multiple Russian-speaking hacker forums trying to recruit affiliates for various ransomware operations.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Russian national Ekaterina Zhdanova for laundering millions in cryptocurrency for various individuals,...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions against a Russian woman for taking part in the laundering of virtual currency for the country's elites and cybercriminal crews, including the...
The Russian Federal Security Service arrested two individuals believed to have helped Ukrainian forces carry out cyberattacks to disrupt Russian critical infrastructure targets. Russia's security agency published a press release on Tuesday saying that its officers detained two hackers who either assisted or joined Ukraine's hackers in cyber operations.
Three Russian nationals were arrested in New York yesterday on charges of moving electronics components worth millions to sanctioned entities in Russia, pieces of which were later recovered on battlefields in Ukraine. Components "With the same make, model and part number shipped by defendants have been found in seized Russian weapons platforms and signals intelligence equipment in Ukraine," the government alleged.
For a period of two years between September 2019 and September 2021, two Americans and two Russians allegedly compromising the taxi dispatch system at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to sell cabbies a place at the front of the dispatch line. "As alleged in the indictment, these four defendants conspired to hack into the taxi dispatch system at JFK airport," said US Attorney Damian Williams in a statement.
The Russian APT28 hacking group has been targeting government entities, businesses, universities, research institutes, and think tanks in France since the second half of 2021. The Russian hackers have been compromising peripheral devices on critical networks of French organizations and moving away from utilizing backdoors to evade detection.
Several state and key industrial organizations in Russia were attacked with a custom Go-based backdoor that performs data theft, likely aiding espionage operations. Kaspersky first detected the campaign in June 2023, while in mid-August, the cybersecurity firm spotted a newer version of the backdoor that introduced better evasion, indicating ongoing optimization of the attacks.
Google's Threat Analysis Group, a team of security experts who defend Google users from state-sponsored attacks, has detected state hackers from several countries targeting the bug, including the Sandworm, APT28, and APT40 threat groups from Russia and China. In an early September attack, Russian Sandworm hackers delivered Rhadamanthys infostealer malware in phishing attacks using fake invitations to join a Ukrainian drone training school.
The agency states that the Russian hackers "Interfered" with the communication systems of 11 telcos in the country, leading to service interruptions and potential data breaches. Sandworm is a very active espionage threat group linked to Russia's GRU. The attackers have focused on Ukraine throughout 2023, using phishing lures, Android malware, and data-wipers.