Russia
US and UK governments issue sanctions on 7 Russians spreading ransomware
For the first time in the history of law, 7 cyber criminals, apparently linked to Russian Intelligence, were slapped with sanctions. Additionally, the real world names, email address, photos and DoBs were also released to the press, to tarnish their image on an international note, thus making them eligible to be slapped with travel bans […]
Russia starts cyber attacks on the West with Germany for supporting Ukraine
Russia launched a war on Ukraine, its neighboring country, on February 24th of the year 2022. And still the Zelenskyy led nation hasn’t surrendered to Moscow, all because of the extreme support from the west, regarding arms & ammunition, essentials and, of course, funds. As the war is fast approaching the one year long milestone, […]
Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google
Foremost is the cyber attack that hit a third party IT service provider that operates most of the websites of government agencies related to New Zealand. And the most affected among them were the health services. Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt from its sources that Te Whatu Ora-health New Zealand was targeted by threat actors resulting […]
Russia stole the passwords of 50 million users
For the past seven to eight months, we have been constantly reading or listening to Russia’s negative involvement in cybersecurity. Now, the latest that has been published by Group-IB claims Moscow’s involvement in the password stealing of over 50 million users. Yes, according to a report compiled after analyzing over 34 telegram groups’ involvement in […]
Russian Cyberwar targeted 42 countries that support Ukraine
Russian war with Ukraine seems to be never ending and news is now out that state sponsored threat actors have targeted about 42 countries and 128 government agencies so far that were supporting Kyiv with essentials, ammunition and finances. United States along with the UK are urging Zelensky to conduct a dialog with Putin for […]
Russian Cyber Attack acts as a wake-up call for Commercial Satellite Operators
Russia launched a cyber attack on a private satellite operator called KA-SAT Network, just after it started an invasion of Ukraine 8 months ago. Though the attack disrupted thousands of routers across the Zelensky led nation, it did some good as many commercial firms offering satellite-based services treated this attack as a wake-up call to […]
Now Russia and China companies face data breaches
Russian streaming platform ‘START’ has admitted that a portion of data from its 2021 database was stolen by hackers, who are now distributing some samples to affirm their claims. START has acknowledged the cyber attack that could have led to the leak of info such as email ids, usernames and phone numbers. The only good […]
Russia launched DDoS attack on Ukraine Nuclear Plant
Ukraine Nuclear Plant was targeted by a DDoS cyber attack launched by a group of cyber hackers. And details are in that the digital assault was launched by the Kremlin-funded ‘People’s Cyber Army’. Getting deep into the details, Ukraine’s Energoatom has released a press statement dismissing rumors that the whole of its power plant was […]
Russia to end cyber-attacks on Ukraine after talks with the West
Russia has been waging a war on Ukraine for the past 7 months and neither of the both parties seem to be interested in solving the issue through a dialogue. But according to a western newspaper, The Mirror, a senior Russian diplomat, who is closely associated with Vladimir Putin, seems to have sought western help […]
Russia launching wiper malware cyber attacks against Ukraine
After almost 6 months of war with Ukraine, Russia seems to have hit it digitally and so is reportedly launching wiper cyber attacks that could clean off data on the targeted computers on a permanent note. Revealing the same at the Black Hat USA 2022 Security conference, Thomas Hegel and Juan Andres Guerrero, both working […]
