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The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group ScarCruft has been linked to a cyberattack on the IT infrastructure and email server for NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a Russian space rocket designer and intercontinental ballistic missile engineering organization. Today, SentinelLabs reported that ScarCruft is behind a hack of NPO Mashinostroyeniya's email server and IT systems, where the threat actors planted a Windows backdoor named 'OpenCarrot' for remote access to the network.
Two different North Korean nation-state actors have been linked to a cyber intrusion against the major Russian missile engineering company NPO Mashinostroyeniya. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne said it identified "Two instances of North Korea related compromise of sensitive internal IT infrastructure," including a case of an email server compromise and the deployment of a Windows backdoor dubbed OpenCarrot.
An APT group linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has hit employees of several dozen global organizations with phishing attacks via Microsoft Teams, says Microsoft. A social engineering...
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that it identified a set of highly targeted social engineering attacks mounted by a Russian nation-state threat actor using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats. Microsoft said the campaign, observed since at least late May 2023, affected less than 40 organizations globally spanning government, non-government organizations, IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, and media sectors.
Microsoft says a hacking group tracked as APT29 and linked to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service targeted dozens of organizations worldwide, including government agencies, in Microsoft Teams phishing attacks. These new domains were part of the 'onmicrosoft.com' domain, a legitimate Microsoft domain that is automatically used by Microsoft 365 for fallback purposes in case a custom domain is not created.
A Russa-nexus adversary has been linked to 94 new domains, suggesting that the group is actively modifying its infrastructure in response to public disclosures about its activities. Cybersecurity...
A city court in Moscow on Wednesday convicted Group-IB co-founder and CEO Ilya Sachkov of "high treason" and jailed him for 14 years in a "strict regime colony" over accusations of passing...
Ukrainian cops have disrupted a massive bot farm with more than 100 operators allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian invasion, leaking personal information belonging to Ukrainian citizens, and instigating fraud schemes. "The Cyber Police established that the attackers used special equipment and software to register thousands of bot accounts in various social networks and subsequently launch advertisements that violated the norms and legislation of Ukraine," according to machine translation of the news alert issued by the police.
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group 'APT29' has been using unconventional lures like car listings to entice diplomats in Ukraine to click on malicious links that deliver malware. APT29 is linked to the Russian government's Foreign Intelligence Service and has been responsible for numerous cyberespionage campaigns targeting high-interest individuals across the globe.
Microsoft has disclosed that it's detected a spike in credential-stealing attacks conducted by the Russian state-affiliated hacker group known as Midnight Blizzard. The group, which drew worldwide attention for the SolarWinds supply chain compromise in December 2020, has continued to rely on unseen tooling in its targeted attacks aimed at foreign ministries and diplomatic entities.