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Another US military man is facing a potentially significant stretch in prison after allegedly sending secret national defense information overseas. Information categorized as Secret refers to data that could reasonably be expected to cause "Serious damage", and Confidential information could lead to cause "Damage" to US national security.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that it breached the servers of the Russian Ministry of Defense and stole sensitive documents. Software used by the Russian Ministry of Defense for protecting and encrypting data.
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that leverages spam emails to propagate war-related disinformation. The activity has been linked to...
The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine is warning about a PurpleFox malware campaign that has infected at least 2,000 computers in the country. The exact impact of this widespread infection and whether it has affected state organizations or regular people's computers hasn't been determined, but the agency has shared detailed information on how to locate infections and remove the malware.
The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine is warning about a PurpleFox malware campaign that has infected at least 2,000 computers in the country. PurpleFox is a modular Windows botnet malware first spotted in 2018 that comes with a rootkit module allowing it to hide and persist between device reboots.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka "Planeta", and wiped 2 petabytes of data. Planeta is a state research center using space satellite data and ground sources like radars and stations to provide information and accurate predictions about weather, climate, natural disasters, extreme phenomena, and volcanic monitoring.
A pro-Ukraine hacktivist group named 'Blackjack' has claimed a cyberattack against Russian provider of internet services M9com as a direct response to the attack against Kyivstar mobile operator. Kyivstar is Ukraine's largest telecommunications service provider and its services were severely disrupted in mid-December by what was later revealed to be an attack from Russian hackers.
Ukrainian cybersecurity authorities have disclosed that the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm was inside telecom operator Kyivstar's systems at least since May 2023. The...
Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team is warning of a new phishing campaign that allowed Russia-linked hackers to deploy previously unseen malware on a network in under one hour. The links redirect victims to malicious web resources that employ JavaScript to drop a Windows shortcut file that launches PowerShell commands to trigger an infection chain for a new Python malware downloader called 'MASEPIE.'.
The Solntsepek group has taken credit for the attack. They're linked to the Russian military, so it's unclear whether the attack was government directed or freelance.