The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla has been observed piggybacking on attack infrastructure used by a decade-old malware to deliver its own reconnaissance and backdoor tools to targets in Ukraine.
Google-owned Mandiant, which is tracking the operation under the uncategorized cluster moniker UNC4210 , said the hijacked servers correspond to a variant of a commodity malware called ANDROMEDA (aka Gamarue) that was uploaded to VirusTotal in 2013.
Mandiant detects Russian cyber spies using old malware in Ukraine
A Russian cyber espionage group is suspected of repurposing another malware campaign's old infrastructure to spy on a Ukrainian computer network.
What they're saying: "Now they are taking advantage of another actor's work by taking over their command and control," John Hultquist, head of threat intelligence at Mandiant, said in a statement.
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WASHINGTON — A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cyber security experts.
Cold River has escalated its hacking campaign against Kyiv's allies since the invasion of Ukraine, according to cybersecurity researchers and western government officials. The digital blitz against the U.S. labs occurred as U.N.
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"This is one of the most important hacking groups you've never heard of," Reuters quoted Adam Meyers , senior vice president of intelligence at U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike saying. "They are involved in directly supporting Kremlin information operations."
According to Reuters, western officials say the Russian government is a global leader in hacking and uses cyber espionage to spy on foreign governments and industries to seek a competitive advantage.
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The trove of leaked records also includes Twitter users' names, account handles, follower numbers and the dates the accounts were created, according to forum listings reviewed by security researchers and shared with CNN.
Some reports suggested the data was collected in 2021 through a bug in Twitter's systems, a flaw the company fixed in 2022 after a separate incident in July involving 5.4 million Twitter accounts alerted the company to the vulnerability.
Fake Pokemon NFT game installer lets hackers hijack your PC
The website "pokemon-go[.]io," which is still online at the time of writing, claims to be home to a new NFT card game built around the Pokemon franchise, offering users strategic fun together with NFT investment profits.
Considering the popularity of both Pokemon and NFTs, it shouldn't be hard for the operators of the malicious portal to draw an audience to the site through malspam, social media posts, etc.
Hackers Exploiting OpenAI's ChatGPT to Deploy Malware
In one instance, a hacker shared an Android malware code written by ChatGPT, which could steal desired files, compress them, and leak them online.
According to a new report from Israeli security firm Check Point, hackers are using ChatGPT to develop powerful hacking tools and create new chatbots designed to mimic young girls to lure targets.
Hackers are stealing millions with Trojan malware
Several weeks ago, I received a phone call from my friend who is a business owner and works in the cargo industry. He informed me that US$24,000 had vanished from his bank account during the previous night.
The funds were transferred using a mobile app. The transaction was verified via a text message and appeared to be completely legitimate. My entrepreneur friend asked me to help since I have a cybersecurity background.
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Yahoo’s senior information security engineer Jeremi Gosney (opens in new tab) is also extremely critical of the response from LastPass, as well as its general approach to security. Gosney notes that “in the last 10 years.
Hackers went after personally identifiable information the most, study says | SC Media
A recently released study that analyzed the top 100 breaches from July 2021 to July 2022 showed that hackers went after personally identifiable information 42.7% of the time.
For the analysis , Imperva looked at publicly available sources from the web, breach reports, hackers' forums, analysis of stolen database dumps and information from Imperva's own honeypots.
Russian #cyberespionage group Turla has been using decade-old ANDROMEDA malware's attack infrastructure to deliver… https://t.co/qQVMUtUQKt TheHackersNews (from The Internet) Sun Jan 08 06:19:04 +0000 2023
🚨 New research alert! Mandiant has observed a new espionage operation targeting #Ukraine. We suspect this activity… https://t.co/a2V08VdzRo Mandiant (from Reston, VA) Thu Jan 05 18:10:03 +0000 2023
The Russian espionage group, Turla became infamous in 2008 as the hackers behind agent.btz. Now, 15 years later, th… https://t.co/0HD4bCrgyQ WIRED (from San Francisco/New York) Thu Jan 05 22:32:08 +0000 2023
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