A group of pro-Ukraine hackers recently compromised the Spotify accounts of several well-known Russian musicians, swapping out their profile pictures for images of Ukraine’s flag and a Ukrainian rapper, along with messages to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine. The attacks, which began last week, targeted some of the most recognizable Russian artists who had previously […]
Suspected Russian cybercriminals have increased their attacks against Ukrainian financial and government organizations using Smokeloader malware, according to Ukrainian cybersecurity officials. Since May of this year, the malware operators have targeted Ukrainian organizations with intense phishing attacks, primarily attempting to infiltrate their systems and steal sensitive information, according to research published Tuesday by Ukraine’s National […]
The Russian firm Operation Zero has announced a staggering $20m reward for hacking tools capable of compromising iPhones and Android devices. The company unveiled this increased payout on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, aiming to attract top-tier researchers and developer teams to collaborate with their platform. Under this program, Operation Zero is willing to pay […]
A Russian flight booking system was hit by a cyberattack on Thursday, causing delays at airports. A “massive” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the local airline booking system Leonardo was carried out by “foreign hackers,” reported one of the system’s developers, Russian state defense company Rostec. The incident lasted about an hour and affected the […]
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Russian Hackers Target Energy, Law Enforcement Sectors Mihir Bagwe (MihirBagwe) • September 26, 2023 The 30th Prince Konstanty Ostrogski Mechanized Brigade training in February 2022 (Image: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine) Ukrainian cyber defenders are girding for an onslaught of cyberattacks against energy and […]
Russian hacker Dariy Pankov has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and now faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, according to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Pankov, who was extradited from the Eastern European country of Georgia earlier this year, was charged with developing and selling a piece of malware […]
More Russian journalists have come forward this week expressing concern that they too may have been targeted with spyware, following the news that the prominent media figure Galina Timchenko was hacked with Pegasus. On Thursday, three Russian-speaking journalists reported that they have also recently received notifications from Apple warning them that their phones are potential […]
The phone of a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the Kremlin was infected with Pegasus spyware, according to new research. The notorious spying software developed by the Israeli company NSO Group was reportedly installed on the iPhone of Galina Timchenko, owner of the Russian independent media outlet Meduza, while she was in Berlin for […]
Sep 14, 2023THNSpyware / Malware The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around February 10, 2023. Timchenko is […]