Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2023
Russian hacking group Winter Vivern has been actively exploiting Zimbra flaws to steal the emails of NATO and diplomats. A Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-27926) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. The CVE-2022-27926 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2023
Threat actors are targeting organizations located in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. Researchers believe that threat actors use spear […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2023
Russia-linked threat actors targeted at least 17 European nations in 2023, and 74 countries since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. Microsoft revealed that Russia-linked threat actors targeted at least 17 European nations between January and mid-February 2023. According to a report published by the IT giant, the state-sponsored hackers have targeted 74 countries […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2023
Polish intelligence dismantled a cell of Russian spies that gathered info on military equipment deliveries to Ukraine via the EU member. Polish counter-intelligence has dismantled a cell of Russian spies that gathered information on the provisioning of military equipment to Ukraine via the EU member. “The ABW counter-intelligence agency has arrested nine people suspected of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2023
Russia-linked APT29 group abused the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries to target government entities. Russia-linked APT29 (aka SVR group, Cozy Bear, Nobelium, and The Dukes) was spotted abusing the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries in attacks aimed at governments. In early March, BlackBerry researchers uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign aimed at EU […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2023
One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns organizations to increase vigilance. Exactly one year, Russia invaded Ukraine, and now one year later the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging organizations and individuals to increase vigilance. The US agency warns that the United States […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2023
Dutch intelligence revealed that many cyber operations attributed to Russia against Ukraine and NATO members have yet to be publicly disclosed. According to a joint report published by the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), and the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD), many cyber operations conducted by Russia-linked hackers against Ukraine and NATO […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2023
The Russian Government proposed to give a sort of immunity to the hackers that operate in the interests of Moscow. Russian media reported that Alexander Khinshtein, the head of the Duma committee on information policy, announced that the Russian government is evaluating to avoid punishing hackers acting in the interests of Moscow. “The question of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2023
SecurityScorecard’s researchers released a list of proxy IPs used by the pro-Russia group Killnet to neutralize its attacks. SecurityScorecard’s researchers published a list of proxy IPs used by the pro-Russia group Killnet with the intent to interfere with its operation and block its attacks. “To help organizations better protect themselves, SecurityScorecard has published a list of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2023
A Russia-linked threat actor has been observed deploying a new information stealer dubbed Graphiron in attacks against Ukraine. Researchers from Broadcom Symantec spotted a Russia-linked ATP group, tracked as Nodaria (aka UAC-0056), deploying new info-stealing malware, dubbed Graphiron, in attacks against Ukraine. The Nodaria APT group has been active since at least March 2021, it […]
