Ransomware Groups Demystified: CyberVolk Ransomware

As part of our ongoing efforts to monitor emerging cyber threats, we have analyzed the activities of CyberVolk, a politically motivated hacktivist group that transitioned into using ransomware and has been active since June 2024. Unlike traditional ransomware groups, CyberVolk initially positione...

Hacktivism Is Back and Messier Than Ever

Throughout 2022, geopolitics has given rise to a new wave of politically motivated attacks with an undercurrent of state-sponsored meddling...

DDoS attacks in Q3 2022

News overview In Q3 2022, DDoS attacks were, more often than not, it seemed, politically motivated. As before, most news was focused on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but other high-profile events also affected the DDoS landscape this quarter. The pro-Russian group Killnet, active since...

Iranian Hackers Likely Behind Disruptive Cyberattacks Against Albanian Government

A threat actor working to further Iranian goals is said to have been behind a set of damaging cyberattacks against Albanian government services in mid-July 2022. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant said the malicious activity against a NATO state represented a "geographic expansion of Iranian disruptive...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2022

News overview Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in the previous reporting period. ALtahrea Team, a group targeting NATO and its partners, attacked public transportation websites in Israel and the United Kingdom. Israel s...

Pro-Iran Group ALtahrea Hits Port of London Website by DDoS Attack

By Waqas A seemingly ‘politically motivated’ DDoS attack knocked down the Port of London authority’s website. The Port of London… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pro-Iran Group ALtahrea Hits Port of London Website by DDoS Attack...

Why the Belarus Railways Hack Marks a First for Ransomware

The politically motivated attack represents a new frontier for hacktivists—and won’t be the last of its kind...

MosesStaff Locks Up Targets, with No Ransom Demand, No Decryption

The MosesStaff hacking group is aiming politically motivated, destructive attacks at Israeli targets, looking to inflict the most damage possible, researchers warned. Unlike other anti-Zionist hacktivists like the Pay2Key and BlackShadow gangs, which look to extort their victims and cause...

Country of Georgia Suffers Widespread Cyberattack

A cyberattack hit the small country of Georgia, Monday, knocking 2,000 websites as well as the national TV station offline in the largest cyberattack the nation has ever seen. The relatively unsophisticated defacement attack—which replaced normal functionality with an image of former Georgian...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2019

News overview The second quarter of 2019 turned out to be richer than the first in terms of high-profile DDoS attacks. True, most of the campaigns that attracted media attention appeared to be politically, rather than commercially, motivated — and that despite the fact that some security experts...

MAGA 'Safe Space' App Developer Threatens Security Researcher

UPDATE A newly released 63red Safe mobile app that aims to help wary Trump supporters find “safe” and conservative-friendly places to wear Make America Great Again MAGA gear turns out to have a host of security issues, according to one researcher. Meanwhile, Scott Wallace, the Oklahoma-based mobi...

DDoS attacks in Q4 2017

News overview In terms of news about DDoS attacks, the last quarter of 2017 was livelier than the previous one. Some major botnets were discovered and destroyed. For instance, early December saw the FBI, Microsoft, and Europol team up to knock out the Andromeda botnet, in operation since 2011. In...

Gaza Cybergang – updated activity in 2017:

1. Summary information The Gaza cybergang is an Arabic-language, politically-motivated cybercriminal group, operating since 2012 and actively targeting the MENA Middle East North Africa region. The Gaza cybergang's attacks have never slowed down and its typical targets include government...

Bucbi Ransomware Gets Makeover

Two-year-old Bucbi ransomware is making a comeback, with new targeted attacks and a new brute force technique. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks said they spotted the ransomware recently infecting a Windows Server demanding a 5 bitcoins or $2,320 ransom. Researchers report the ransomware is no...

Iranian Gmail users targeted by politically motivated phishing attack

Google says tens of thousands of Gmail accounts belonging to Iranian users have been targeted in an politically motivated hacking campaign in the weeks leading up to the country's closely watched presidential elections. For the last three weeks, the search giant said it has "detected and disrupte...

Iranian Gmail users targeted by politically motivated phishing attack

Google says tens of thousands of Gmail accounts belonging to Iranian users have been targeted in an politically motivated hacking campaign in the weeks leading up to the country's closely watched presidential elections. For the last three weeks, the search giant said it has "detected and disrupte...

Comodo Hacker Claims Credit for DigiNotar Attack

The same attacker who claimed to have compromised Comodo in March is now claiming responsibility for the attack on DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority that issued fraudulent certificates for several hundred domains in he last few weeks, including Google, Yahoo, Mozilla Add-Ons and several...

Google users targeted by hackers !

Google has warned of politically motivated and targeted attacks against users of its services. According to the company, the attackers are also targeting the users of another undisclosed social network. In a blog posting, the Google security team says that the exploit is based on a security hole ...

MHTML vulnerability under active exploitation !

We've noticed some highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target. We've also seen attacks against users of another popular social site. All these attacks abuse a publicly-disclosed MHTML vulnerability for which...

WordPress DDoS Attacks Primarily From China !

After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service's history "multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second" yesterday morning, blog host WordPress.com was attacked again very early this morning, finally stabilizing its service at 11:15...