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Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2022
CISA and FBI warn of potential data wiping attacks spillover

US CISA and the FBI warned US organizations that data wiping attacks targeting Ukraine entities could spill over to targets worldwide. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn US organizations of data wiping attacks targeting Ukraine that could hit targets worldwide. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2022
FoxBlade malware targeted Ukrainian networks hours before Russia’s invasion

Microsoft revealed that Ukrainian entities were targeted with a previous undetected malware, dubbed FoxBlade, several hours before the invasion. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) continues to investigate the attacks that are targeting Ukrainian networks and discovered that entities in Ukraine were targeted with a previously undetected malware, dubbed FoxBlade, several hours before Russia’s invasion. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2022
Anonymous hit Russian Nuclear Institute and leak stolen data

Anonymous and other hacker groups that responded to the call to war against Russia continue to launch cyberattacks on gov organizations and businesses. Anonymous and numerous hacker groups linked to the popular collective continue to launch cyber attacks against Russian and Belarussian government organizations and private businesses. In the last few days massive DDoS attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2022
Toyota Motors halted production due to a cyber attack on a supplier

Japanese carmaker Toyota Motors was forced to stop car production due to a cyberattack against one of its suppliers. Japanese carmaker Toyota Motors was forced to halt its production due to a cyber attack that suffered by one of its suppliers, Kojima Industries. “It is true that we have been hit by some kind of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2022
Researcher leaked Conti’s internal chat messages in response to its support to Russia

A Ukrainian researcher leaked tens of thousands of internal chat messages belonging to the Conti ransomware operation. A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,694 messages internal chat messages belonging to the Conti ransomware operation after the announcement of the group of its support to Russia. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Hold Security confirmed that the researcher was able to access […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 355

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Anonymous breached the internal network of Belarusian railways Feb 7- Feb 27 Ukraine – […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2022
Iran-linked UNC3313 APT employed two custom backdoors against a Middle East gov entity

An Iran-linked threat actor, tracked as UNC3313, was observed using two custom backdoor against an unnamed Middle East government entity. UNC3313 is an Iran-linked threat actor that was linked with “moderate confidence” to the MuddyWater nation-state actor (aka Static Kitten, Seedworm, TEMP.Zagros, or Mercury) by cybersecurity firm Mandiant. UNC3313 was observed deploying two new custom […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2022
Anonymous breached the internal network of Belarusian railways

The Anonymous hacker collective claims to have breached the Belarusian Railway’s data-processing network. The Anonymous collective announced that the internal network of Belarusian railways has been compromised, the group claims to have blocked all services and will deactivate them until Russian troops will leave the territory of Belarus. Purpose of attack – to disrupt the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2022
Feb 7- Feb 27 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of Russia – Ukraine cyber dispute February 27 – Ukraine: Volunteer IT Army is going to hit tens of Russian targets from this list Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer IT army […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2022
Ukraine: Volunteer IT Army is going to hit tens of Russian targets from this list

Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer IT army composed of white hat hackers to launch attacks on a list of Russian entities. Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer IT army of cyber security experts and white hat hackers to launch cyberattacks on a list of Russian entities. The list is composed of 31 targets including Russian critical […]