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BadPilot network hacking campaign fuels Russian SandWorm attacks
2025-02-12 17:00

A subgroup of the Russian state-sponsored hacking group APT44, also known as 'Seashell Blizzard' and 'Sandworm', has been targeting critical organizations and governments in a multi-year campaign...

Russian military hackers deploy malicious Windows activators in Ukraine
2025-02-11 16:44

The Sandworm Russian military cyber-espionage group is targeting Windows users in Ukraine with trojanized Microsoft Key Management Service (KMS) activators and fake Windows updates. [...]

HPE notifies employees of data breach after Russian Office 365 hack
2025-02-07 19:21

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is notifying employees whose data was stolen from the company's Office 365 email environment by Russian state-sponsored hackers in a May 2023 cyberattack. [...]

Russian cybercrooks exploiting 7-Zip zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-0411)
2025-02-04 13:02

CVE-2025-0411, a Mark-of-the-Web bypass vulnerability in the open-source archiver tool 7-Zip that was fixed in November 2024, has been exploited in zero-day attacks to deliver malware to Ukrainian...

Russian Cybercrime Groups Exploiting 7-Zip Flaw to Bypass Windows MotW Protections
2025-02-04 12:28

A recently patched security vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiver tool was exploited in the wild to deliver the SmokeLoader malware. The flaw, CVE-2025-0411 (CVSS score: 7.0), allows remote...

E.U. Sanctions 3 Russian Nationals for Cyber Attacks Targeting Estonia’s Key Ministries
2025-01-28 10:16

The Council of the European Union has sanctioned three individuals for allegedly carrying out "malicious cyber activities" against Estonia. The three Russian nationals – Nikolay Alexandrovich...

EU sanctions Russian GRU hackers for cyberattacks against Estonia
2025-01-27 18:51

The European Union sanctioned three hackers, part of Unit 29155 of Russia's military intelligence service (GRU), for their involvement in cyberattacks targeting Estonia's government agencies in 2020. [...]

GamaCopy Mimics Gamaredon Tactics in Cyber Espionage Targeting Russian Entities
2025-01-27 07:59

A previously unknown threat actor has been observed copying the tradecraft associated with the Kremlin-aligned Gamaredon hacking group in its cyber attacks targeting Russian-speaking entities. The...

How Russian hackers went after NGOs’ WhatsApp accounts
2025-01-17 15:26

Star Blizzard, a threat actor tied to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), was spotted attempting to compromise targets’ WhatsApp accounts through a clever phishing campaign. The campaign...

Russian Star Blizzard Targets WhatsApp Accounts in New Spear-Phishing Campaign
2025-01-16 18:12

The Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims' WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in...