NoName ransomware group has allegedly targeted multiple Ukrainian government websites. The latest victims of the alleged NoName ransomware attack on Ukraine include Accordbank, Zaporizhzhya Titanium-Magnesium Plant, State Tax Service, Central Interregional Tax Administration, Western Interregional Tax Administration, and the Main Directorate of the State Tax Service in Kyiv. The Cyber Express tried to verify the […]
The Albanian parliament and a telecom company operating in the country were targeted by cyberattacks this week, the country’s cyber agency said in a statement. According to the agency, the attacks originated from outside Albania and country’s tech experts “are currently working to recover the affected systems and analyze the tactics and techniques used by […]
Dec 27, 2023NewsroomMalware / Server Security Poorly secured Linux SSH servers are being targeted by bad actors to install port scanners and dictionary attack tools with the goal of targeting other vulnerable servers and co-opting them into a network to carry out cryptocurrency mining and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “Threat actors can also choose to […]
The hacker group known as Cloud Atlas targeted a Russian agro-industrial enterprise and a state-owned research company in a new espionage campaign, researchers have found. Cloud Atlas is a state-backed threat actor, active since at least 2014, that mostly attacks organizations in Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Slovenia. In its new campaign, the hackers sent […]
Israel’s National Cyber Directorate (NCD) has issued an “urgent warning” about a targeted email campaign impersonating F5 Networks that delivers a dangerous wiper malware. The lure for the attack is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in F5’s BIG-IP, disclosed in late October. At the time, F5 said one way to resolve the vulnerability was to download and […]
Threat actors affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) have targeted unpatched JetBrains TeamCity servers in widespread attacks since September 2023. The activity has been tied to a nation-state group known as APT29, which is also tracked as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard (formerly Nobelium), and The Dukes. It’s notable for the […]
A group of hackers targeted a television service in the United Arab Emirates over the weekend, replacing the original broadcast with graphic footage from the war between Israel and Hamas. Several UAE citizens affected by the hack told the Dubai-based newspaper Khaleej Times that television programs aired on European live channels, including BBC News, were […]
Dec 05, 2023NewsroomBrandjacking / Artificial Intelligence The Russia-linked influence operation called Doppelganger has targeted Ukrainian, U.S., and German audiences through a combination of inauthentic news sites and social media accounts. These campaigns are designed to amplify content designed to undermine Ukraine as well as propagate anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment, U.S. military competence, and Germany’s economic and social […]
The BlackCat ransomware group has reportedly targeted Ho Chi Minh City Energy Company, a subsidiary of Vietnam Electricity. The alleged EVNHCMC data breach has raised concerns, prompting the hacker group ALPHV to threaten to report the incident to the Vietnam Department of Energy. The situation is unfolding, with 84 samples from the Vietnam Electricity data […]