What Hack? Burlington Electric Speaks Out

Two days before the start of the New Year’s holiday weekend, the Department of Homeland Security shared technical details and indicators of compromise related to tools used by Russian intelligence services in attacks allegedly attempting to influence the U.S. presidential election. Dutifully, IT...

Vermont Grid 'Hack' Latest Tumble Down Attribution Rabbit Hole

A Vermont utility was for a brief moment last week at the center of a geopolitical scandal in which the Russian government was implicated in an attack against a U.S. electric grid. As it turns out, a laptop at Burlington Electric Department was infected with the Neutrino Exploit Kit. There was no...

FBI-DHS Report Links Fancy Bear Gang to Election Hacks

In a report released Thursday the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Homeland Security implicated Russian hacking group Fancy Bear in attacks against several election-related targets. According to the Joint Analysis Report, the hacking group Fancy Bear, believed to have ties...

Obama Expels 35 Russian Spies Over Election Hacking; Russia Responds With Duck Meme

The United States has expelled 35 Russian spies in response to Russia's alleged interference in last month's presidential election, further escalating tensions between the countries. The US state department has declared 35 diplomatic intelligence officials from the Russian embassy in Washington D...

GRIZZLY STEPPE - Russian Malicious Cyber Activity

The Department of Homeland Security DHS has released a Joint Analysis Report JAR that details Russian malicious cyber activity, designated as GRIZZLY STEPPE. This activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services RIS is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directe...

Russia Wants Apple to Unlock iPhone belonging to Killer of Russian Ambassador

You might have also seen a viral video of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey that quickly spread through the Internet worldwide. Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot dead by an off-duty police officer in Ankara on December 19 when the ambassador was giving a speech at an a...

'MethBot' Ad Fraud Operators Making $5 Million Revenue Every Day

The biggest advertising fraud ever! A group of hackers is making between $3 Million to $5 Million per day from United States brands and media companies in the biggest digital ad fraud ever discovered. Online fraud-prevention firm White Ops uncovered this new Ad fraud campaign, dubbed "Methbot,"...

ShadowBrokers Dump Came from Internal Code Repository, Insider

Update An analysis of the latest ShadowBrokers dump of alleged NSA spy tools points to an insider with access to a code repository belonging to the intelligence agency, experts said. Researchers at security company Flashpoint said today that its investigation of the leaked data points away from a...

German Industrial Giant Victim of Cyber Espionage

German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp disclosed last week that technical trade secrets were stolen in a cyberattack that dates back to February. Adversaries, ThyssenKrupp said, engaged in “organized, highly professional hacker activities” and launched their attack from the Southeast Asian...

President Obama Orders 'Full Review' of Possible Russian hacking in US Election

In his final month in office, President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a "full review" of pre-election cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations that many believe affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The United States intelligence...

Russia proposes 10 Year in Prison Sentence for Hackers and Malware Authors

The Russian government has introduced a draft bill that proposes prison sentences as punishment for hackers and cyber criminals creating malicious software used in targeting critical Russian infrastructure, even if they have no part in actual cyber attacks. The bill, published on the Russian...

San Francisco Metro System Hacked with Ransomware; Resulting in Free Rides

Nothing is immune to being hacked when hackers are motivated. The same proved by hackers on Friday, when more than 2,000 computer systems at San Francisco's public transit agency were apparently got hacked. San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency, also known as MUNI, offered free rides on...

Hackers Steal Millions From European ATMs Using Malware That Spit Out Cash

ATM hackers who long relied on tactics of stealing payment card numbers and online banking credentials to steal millions are now targeting the bank itself to steal cash directly from the machines. Earlier this year, a gang of cyber criminals infected several ATMs with malware in Taiwan and Thaila...

russian-records.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.russian-records.com/search.php?searchkeywords=%22%3E%3C/title%3E%27%3E;%3C/script%3E%3Csvg/onload=alert/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly...

5 Major Russian Banks Hit With Powerful DDoS Attacks

Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have risen enormously in past few months and, mostly, they are coming from hacked and insecure internet-connected devices, most commonly known as Internet of Things IoT. Recent DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn that brought down a large chunk of the...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Disclosed by Google

Microsoft followed through and today patched a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in public attacks that was disclosed by Google researchers nine days ago. The victims have yet to have been identified, but Microsoft did accuse the Sofacy APT gang of carrying out the attacks. Sofacy is general...

Risk of Election Day Cyberattacks Low According To Cyber Chatter

Security experts monitoring cyber-chatter for virtual and real-world threats against U.S. Election Day targets say so far, so good. They don’t believe there will be cyberattack or al-Qaeda terror attack come Election Day. That’s not to say the U.S. government isn’t ready for the worst. The White...

Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Using Unpatched Windows Bug Disclosed by Google

Google's Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed on Monday a critical zero-day vulnerability in most versions of Windows just 10 days after privately disclosed both zero days to Microsoft and Adobe. While Adobe rushed an emergency patch for its Flash Player software on October 26, Microsoft ha...

Microsoft Says Russian APT Group Behind Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft has singled out Sofacy, an APT group long thought to have ties to Russia’s military intelligence arm GRU, as the entity behind targeted attacks leveraging Windows kernel and Adobe Flash zero days in targeted attacks. The group, which Microsoft calls Strontium, is also known as APT28, Ts...

Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls

The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...