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Email accounts of multiple German Parliament members were targeted in a spearphishing attack. It is believed that the attackers were able to gain access to the email accounts of seven members of the German federal parliament and 31 members of German regional parliaments.
The United States sentenced a Russian and a North Macedonian on Friday to prison for their roles in a vast cyber crime operation. Sergey Medvedev, 33, of Russia and Marko Leopard, 31, of North Macedonia, were sentenced to ten and five years respectively, according to a Justice Department statement.
The Russian national who attempted to convince a Tesla employee to plant malware on the company's computers has pleaded guilty, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer.
Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov has pleaded guilty to recruiting a Tesla employee to plant malware designed to steal data within the network of Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory. Kriuchkov also told the Tesla employee that he was earlier involved in other similar "Projects" where one of the victim companies paid $4 million after negotiating down from an initial $6 million ransom.
Hacker groups linked to Russian intelligence conducted cyber-attacks against top Lithuanian officials and decision-makers last year and used the Baltic nation's technology infrastructure as a base to hit targets elsewhere, a report by Lithuania's intelligence service said Thursday. The annual national security threat assessment report claimed that, among others, the Russian cyber-espionage group APT29 with alleged links to Russia's intelligence services "Exploited" Lithuania's information technology infrastructure "To carry out attacks by APT29 against foreign entities developing a COVID-19 vaccine."
Maza, a place online for fraudsters and extorters to connect to pull off their operations, has been breached by an unknown attacker, in just the latest in a series of attacks targeting elite Russian-language cybercrime forums. These forums are where threat actors can go to access ransomware-as-a-service tools, launder stolen money and even get advice on how to improve their crimes, Flashpoint vice president Thomas Hofmann explained to Threatpost.
Over the past few weeks, three of the longest running and most venerated Russian-language online forums serving thousands of experienced cybercriminals have been hacked. Members of all three forums are worried the incidents could serve as a virtual Rosetta Stone for connecting the real-life identities of the same users across multiple crime forums.
The agency said it had linked the attack to "One of the hacker spy groups from the Russian Federation." The incident was described as a supply chain attack and compared to the NotPetya attack of 2017 and the recently disclosed SolarWinds incident. Another press release, issued on Monday, said the NCCC had been seeing "Massive DDoS attacks" since February 18.
Ukraine is formally pointing fingers at Russian hackers for hacking into one of its government systems and attempting to plant and distribute malicious documents that would install malware on target systems of public authorities. "The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of information resources of public authorities, as this system is used for the circulation of documents in most public authorities," the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine said in a statement published on Wednesday.
The System of Electronic Interaction of Executive Bodies hacked in this attack is used by most public authorities to share documents, as the country's national security and defense agency explained. The attack belongs to the so-called supply chain attacks.