state-sponsored hacking

Huge Russia-Linked botnet VPNFilter ready to launch a massive attack on Ukraine

Security firm Talos along with other cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have uncovered a huge botnet dubbed VPNFilter, composed of…

6 years ago

OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D, a new macOS backdoor linked to APT 32 group

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new macOS backdoor that they linked to the APT 32 (OceanLotus, APT-C-00, SeaLotus, and Cobalt…

6 years ago

US imposes sanctions on nine Iranian hackers involved in a massive state-sponsored hacking scheme

The US DoJ and Department of the Treasury on Friday announced charges against nine Iranian hackers for alleged involvement in…

6 years ago

The Dutch intelligence service AIVD ‘hacked’ Russian Cozy Bear systems for years

Spying on spies - The hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD 'compromised' for years the network of the Russian…

6 years ago

Russian Fancy Bear APT Group improves its weapons in ongoing campaigns

Fancy Bear APT group refactored its backdoor and improved encryption to make it stealthier and harder to stop. The operations conducted…

6 years ago

Latest Russia-linked APT28 campaign targeting security experts

Russian cyber espionage group APT28 targeted individuals with spear-phishing messages using documents referencing a NATO cybersecurity conference. Researchers with Cisco Talos have…

7 years ago

APT28 group is rushing to exploit recent CVE-2017-11292 Flash 0-Day before users apply the patches

The APT28 group is trying to exploit the CVE-2017-11292 Flash zero-day before users receive patches or update their systems. Security…

7 years ago

Irish electricity transmission system operator EirGrid targeted by a nation-state actor

The Irish electricity transmission system operator EirGrid was targeted by a state-sponsored actor, the hackers weren't discovered at least for…

7 years ago

Canada’ CSE warns of cyber attacks against next 2019 Election

The Canada Communications Security Establishment (CSE) published a report that reveals that hackers will attempt to hack into 2019 country's…

7 years ago

Tainted Leaks – Widespead Russia’s disinformation campaign hit 39 Countries

Researchers at Citizen Lab documented a Russia's campaign of cyberespionage and disinformation that leveraged tainted leaks. According to the researchers…

7 years ago

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