CISA and International Partners Release Advisory on Russia-based Threat Actor Group, Star Blizzard

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA—in coordination with the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre UK-NCSC, Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre ASD’s ACSC, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS, New Zealand National Cyber...

PT-2023-18914 · Undefined · Undefined

ParsedReport CompletenessMedium 07-12-2023 Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/russian-apt-fighting-ursa-exploits-cve-2023-233397 Report completeness: Medium Actors/Campaigns: Fancy bear Forest blizzard Threats: Wildfire Victims: Organizatio...

Microsoft Warns of Kremlin-Backed APT28 Exploiting Critical Outlook Vulnerability

Microsoft on Monday said it detected Kremlin-backed nation-state activity exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw in its Outlook email service to gain unauthorized access to victims' accounts within Exchange servers. The tech giant attributed the intrusions to a threat actor it called...

Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability Exploited by Russian Forest Blizzard Group

By Waqas Forest Blizzard aka STRONTIUM, APT28, and Fancy Bear is thought to have affiliations with or support from the Russian military intelligence agency. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability Exploited by Russian Forest Blizzard Group...

Russian Midnight Blizzard Hackers Hit MS Teams in Precision Attack

By Waqas The group of Russian hackers involved in this attack is Midnight Blizzard aka NOBELIUM. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Midnight Blizzard Hackers Hit MS Teams in Precision Attack...

Microsoft Exposes Russian Hackers' Sneaky Phishing Tactics via Microsoft Teams Chats

Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that it identified a set of highly targeted social engineering attacks mounted by a Russian nation-state threat actor using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats. The tech giant attributed the attacks to a group it tracks as Midnight Blizza...

Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard previously tracked as NOBELIUM. This latest attack, combined with past activit...

Microsoft Warns of Widescale Credential Stealing Attacks by Russian Hackers

Microsoft has disclosed that it's detected a spike in credential-stealing attacks conducted by the Russian state-affiliated hacker group known as Midnight Blizzard. The intrusions, which make use of residential proxy services to obfuscate the source IP address of the attacks, target governments, ...

Microsoft Warns of Widescale Credential Stealing Attacks by Russian Hackers

Microsoft has disclosed that it's detected a spike in credential-stealing attacks conducted by the Russian state-affiliated hacker group known as Midnight Blizzard. The intrusions, which make use of residential proxy services to obfuscate the source IP address of the attacks, target governments, ...

Microsoft warns of rising NOBELIUM credential attacks on defence sector

By Waqas The NOBELIUM group is also known as Midnight Blizzard. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft warns of rising NOBELIUM credential attacks on defence sector...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 12 June to 18 June 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of seven attacks executed, taking advantage of twenty different vulnerabilities in...

Unveiling Cadet Blizzard APT’s Wiper Attacks Targeting Ukraine

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Cadet Blizzard, a Russian GRU-sponsored threat group, conducted major cyber operations using WhisperGate, a customized wiper malware, to demonstrate their destructive capabilities through targeted attack...

Microsoft Warns of New Russian State-Sponsored Hacker Group with Destructive Intent

Microsoft on Wednesday took the lid off a "novel and distinct Russian threat actor," which it said is linked to the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate GRU and has a "relatively low success rate." The tech giant's Threat Intelligence team, which was previously tracking the group under its...

Microsoft Warns of New Russian State-Sponsored Hacker Group with Destructive Intent

Microsoft on Wednesday took the lid off a "novel and distinct Russian threat actor," which it said is linked to the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate GRU and has a "relatively low success rate." The tech giant's Threat Intelligence team, which was previously tracking the group under its...

Cadet Blizzard emerges as a novel and distinct Russian threat actor

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues into its second year and Microsoft continues to collaborate with global partners in response, the exposure of destructive cyber capabilities and information operations provide greater clarity into the tools and techniques used by Russian state-sponsored...

Google TAG Warns of Russian Hackers Conducting Phishing Attacks in Ukraine

Elite hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence service have been linked to large-volume phishing campaigns aimed at hundreds of users in Ukraine to extract intelligence and influence public discourse related to the war. Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG, which is monitoring the...

PT-2022-5458

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows 10 versions prior to 10.0.10240.19507 Microsoft Windows 10 versions prior to 10.0.14393.5427 Microsoft Windows 10 versions prior to 10.0.17763.3532 Microsoft Windows 10 versions prior to 10.0.19042.2130 Microsoft Windows 10...

python-pillow: Excessive memory allocation in BLP image reader

A flaw was found in python-pillow. Attackers can cause a denial of service memory consumption because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for a BLP container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large...

Gigabyte Allegedly Hit by AvosLocker Ransomware

The AvosLocker ransomware gang is claiming that it breached tech giant Gigabyte and has leaked a sample of what it claims are files stolen from the Taiwanese company’s network. It’s offering to sell the rest. On Wednesday, the gang posted a “press release” announcing that it had purportedly gutte...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-27921

Pillow before 8.1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for a BLP container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large...