Russian Operatives Expose German Military Webex Conversations

By Deeba Ahmed Leaked Military Audio Raises Stakes in Russia-Ukraine Conflict. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Operatives Expose German Military Webex Conversations...

Russia Clamps Down on VPNs, Furthering Restrictions on Internet Access

By Deeba Ahmed Russia Tightens Grip on Internet Freedom: VPN Ban Sparks Concerns. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russia Clamps Down on VPNs, Furthering Restrictions on Internet Access...

Russia Attacked Ukraine's Power Grid at Least 66 Times to ‘Freeze It Into Submission’

Several of the strikes occurred far from the front lines of the conflict, indicating possible war crimes. Researchers say the attacks likely had devastating impacts on civilians...

Biden Executive Order Bans Sale of US Data to China, Russia. Good Luck

The White House issued an executive order on Wednesday that aims to prevent the sale of Americans' data to “countries of concern,” including China and Russia. Its effectiveness may vary...

Unmasking Doppelgänger: Russia’s Disinformation Campaign Revealed

Summary: Doppelgänger, a suspected Russia-aligned influence operation network targeting German audiences with propaganda and disinformation, potentially aiming to sway opinions ahead of elections. Doppelgänger employs coordinated social media activities and a dynamic infrastructure to maximize it...

Cybersecurity Agencies Warn Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Users of APT28's MooBot Threat

In a new joint advisory, cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the U.S. and other countries are urging users of Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to take protective measures, weeks after a botnet comprising infected routers was felled by law enforcement as part of an operation codenamed Dying Ember. The...

LockBit Ransomware Group Resurfaces After Law Enforcement Takedown

The threat actors behind the LockBit ransomware operation have resurfaced on the dark web using new infrastructure, days after an international law enforcement exercise seized control of its servers. To that end, the notorious group has moved its data leak portal to a new .onion address on the TO...

Russian Hackers Target Ukraine with Disinformation and Credential-Harvesting Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that leverages spam emails to propagate war-related disinformation. The activity has been linked to Russia-aligned threat actors by Slovak cybersecurity company ESET, which also identified a spear-phishing campai...

Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websites, Offer Decryption Tools, Troll Affiliates

U.S. and U.K. authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit, a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. Instead of listing data stolen from ransomware victims who didnt pay, LockBits vict...

EU Court of Human Rights Rejects Encryption Backdoors

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that breaking end-to-end encryption by adding backdoors violates human rights: Seemingly most critically, the Russian government told the ECHR that any intrusion on private lives resulting from decrypting messages was "necessary" to combat terrorism in...

Turla Expands Their Arsenal with Next-Generation Malwares

Summary: In December 2023, a new backdoor dubbed TinyTurla-NG was deployed by the Russia-affiliated threat actor Turla as part of a three-month campaign targeting Polish non-governmental organizations NGOs. The threat actor utilized malicious PowerShell scripts hosted on various websites,...

The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine's Surface

The widespread use of mines has left Ukrainians scrambling to find ways to clear the explosives. New efforts to develop mine-clearing technology may help them push back Russia's invading forces...

Microsoft, OpenAI Warn of Nation-State Hackers Weaponizing AI for Cyber Attacks

Nation-state actors associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are experimenting with artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs to complement their ongoing cyber attack operations. The findings come from a report published by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI, both ...

Alert: CISA Warns of Active 'Roundcube' Email Attacks - Patch Now

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Roundcube email software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-43770 CVSS score: 6.1,...

China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies

Plus: Russia was likely behind widespread GPS outages, Vault 7 leaker was sentenced, police claim to trace Monero cryptocurrency, and more...

russia-channel.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3846233

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia's War in Ukraine

Aerial drones have changed the war in Ukraine. Now, both Russia’s and Ukraine’s militaries are deploying more unmanned ground robots—and the two are colliding...

Who is Alleged Medibank Hacker Aleksandr Ermakov?

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. 33-year-old Aleksandr Ermakov allegedly stole and leaked the...

Russian TrickBot Mastermind Gets 5-Year Prison Sentence for Cybercrime Spree

40-year-old Russian national Vladimir Dunaev has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison for his role in creating and distributing the TrickBot malware, the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ said. The development comes nearly two months after Dunaev pleaded guilty to committing comput...

U.S., U.K., Australia Sanction Russian REvil Hacker Behind Medibank Breach

Governments from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. have imposed financial sanctions on a Russian national for his alleged role in the 2022 ransomware attack against health insurance provider Medibank. Alexander Ermakov aka bladerunner, GistaveDore, GustaveDore, or JimJones, 33, has been tied to t...