Russian Hackers Shift Tactics, Target More Victims with Paid Malware

By Deeba Ahmed Russian hackers and APT groups are escalating cyberattacks, leveraging readily available malware and broadening their targets beyond governments.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Hackers Shift Tactics, Target More Victims with Paid Malware...

Cyber Criminals Exploit GitHub and FileZilla to Deliver Malware Cocktail

A "multi-faceted campaign" has been observed abusing legitimate services like GitHub and FileZilla to deliver an array of stealer malware and banking trojans such as Atomic aka AMOS, Vidar, Lumma aka LummaC2, and Octo by impersonating credible software like 1Password, Bartender 5, and Pixelmator...

Latvian TV Channels Hacked to Broadcast Russian Victory Day Parade

By Deeba Ahmed Confused Latvians woke up to the Russian Victory Day parade on their TVs! Hackers targeted a content delivery network to manipulate broadcasts exposing media supply chain vulnerabilities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Latvian TV Channels Hacked to Broadca...

A (Strange) Interview With the Russian-Military-Linked Hackers Targeting US Water Utilities

Despite Cyber Army of Russia’s claims of swaying US “minds and hearts,” experts say the cyber sabotage group appears to be hyping its hacking for a domestic audience...

U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group

The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 31-year-old Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged leader of the infamous ransomware group LockBit. The U.S. Department of Justice also indicted Khoroshev and charged him with using Lockbit to attac...

Inside Ukraine’s Killer-Drone Startup Industry

Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home...

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme

The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service FSB was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for accepting a USD $1.7 million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that hacked thousands of e-commerce websites. T...

Russian APT Deploys New 'Kapeka' Backdoor in Eastern European Attacks

A previously undocumented "flexible" backdoor called Kapeka has been "sporadically" observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the...

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the states revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a...

U.S. Federal Agencies Ordered to Hunt for Signs of Microsoft Breach and Mitigate Risks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday issued an emergency directive ED 24-02 urging federal agencies to hunt for signs of compromise and enact preventive measures following the recent compromise of Microsoft's systems that led to the theft of email...

Flightio.com SQL Injection

This site which has a security problem with the SQL INJECTION Vulnerability "CWE-89". We have repeatedly reported to this site that it has a security problem and has ignored our report. We want to record this security issue Exploit Title : Site Flight agency airpol the Islamic Republic of Iran SQ...

russianfreepress.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3908066

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...

Hackers Exploit Magento Bug to Steal Payment Data from E-commerce Websites

Threat actors have been found exploiting a critical flaw in Magento to inject a persistent backdoor into e-commerce websites. The attack leverages CVE-2024-20720 CVSS score: 9.1, which has been described by Adobe as a case of "improper neutralization of special elements" that could pave the way f...

57,000 Kaspersky Fan Club Forum User Data Leaked in Hosting Breach

By Waqas Hacker group RGB claims responsibility for breaching Kaspersky's fan club and the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, leaking over 100,000 criminal records. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 57,000 Kaspersky Fan Club Forum User Data Leaked in Hosting Bre...

russianemirates.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3897452

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...

Hackers Target macOS Users with Malicious Ads Spreading Stealer Malware

Malicious ads and bogus websites are acting as a conduit to deliver two different stealer malware, including Atomic Stealer, targeting Apple macOS users. The ongoing infostealer attacks targeting macOS users may have adopted different methods to compromise victims' Macs, but operate with the end...

U.S. Sanctions 3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges for Helping Russia Evade Sanctions

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for offering services used to evade economic restrictions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. This includes Bitpapa IC FZC LLC, Crypto Explorer DMCC...

Key Lesson from Microsoft's Password Spray Hack: Secure Every Account

In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they'd been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard sometimes known as Nobelium. The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn't a highly technical hack that exploited a...

Apple Chip Flaw Leaks Secret Encryption Keys

Plus: The Biden administration warns of nationwide attacks on US water systems, a new Russian wiper malware emerges, and China-linked hackers wage a global attack spree...

Russian Hackers Use 'WINELOADER' Malware to Target German Political Parties

The WINELOADER backdoor used in recent cyber attacks targeting diplomatic entities with wine-tasting phishing lures has been attributed as the handiwork of a hacking group with links to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service SVR, which was responsible for breaching SolarWinds and Microsoft. The...