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The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet. According to Reuters, which first reported on the US Treasury incident, the Killnet DDoS flood didn't have any operational impact on the agency and it happened a couple days before the Russians turned their attention to JPMorgan Chase.
A Russian-speaking ransomware group dubbed OldGremlin has been attributed to 16 malicious campaigns aimed at entities operating in the transcontinental Eurasian nation over the course of two and a half years. In what's a rarity in the ransomware landscape, OldGremlin is one of the very few financially motivated cybercrime gangs that primarily focuses on Russian companies.
OldGremlin, one of the few ransomware groups attacking Russian corporate networks, has expanded its toolkit with file-encrypting malware for Linux machines. Group-IB researchers have been tracking OldGremlin and their tactics, techniques, and procedures since the first attacks attributed to the group in March 2020.
Germany's government has stood down the president of its Federal Office for Information Security, Arne Schönbohm, over his links to Russia. Among the matters raised in the thread were Schönbohm's founding of a lobby group called Cyber Security Council Germany.
A pro-Russian group created a crowdsourced project called 'DDOSIA' that pays volunteers launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against western entities. In hacktivist DDoS attacks, volunteers don't get a monetary reward.
The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' is claiming large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks against websites of several major airports in the U.S., making them unaccessible.The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed the servers hosting these sites with garbage requests, making it impossible for travelers to connect and get updates about their scheduled flights or book airport services.
The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' has carried out large-scale DDoS attacks against several U.S. airports' websites, taking many of them offline. The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed the servers hosting these sites with garbage requests, making it impossible for travelers to connect and get updates about their scheduled flights or book airport services.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday disclosed that it has detained a Russian national for allegedly hacking into a software platform used to conduct engineering entrance assessments in the country in 2021. "The said accused was detained by the Bureau of Immigration at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi while arriving in India from Almaty, Kazakhstan," the primary investigating agency said in a press release.
Russian retail chain 'DNS' disclosed yesterday that they suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of customers and employees. While the firm has not provided details on what information was compromised, it clarified that the hackers didn't steal user passwords and payment card data, as that data isn't stored on their systems.
Ever since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered partial mobilization after facing setbacks on the Ukrainian front, men in Russia and the state's conscript officers are playing a 'cat and mouse' game involving technology and cybercrime services. More specifically, many Russian men eligible for enlistment have resorted to illegal channels that provide them with fabricated exemptions, while those fleeing the country to neighboring regions turn to use identity masking tools.