Amazon: Low-Skill Hacker Used AI Tools to Breach FortiGate Devices Globally

Amazon says a Russian speaking low-skill hacker used AI tools to breach hundreds of FortiGate devices worldwide, showing how AI can scale cyberattacks with basic methods...

Wanted Russian Hacker Linked to Hive and LockBit Ransomware Arrested

A Russian cybercriminal wanted in the U.S. in connection with LockBit and Hive ransomware operations has been arrested by law enforcement authorities in the country. According to a news report from Russian media outlet RIA Novosti, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev has been accused of developing a...

The Not-So-Secret Network Access Broker x999xx

Most accomplished cybercriminals go out of their way to separate their real names from their hacker handles. But among certain old-school Russian hackers it is not uncommon to find major players who have done little to prevent people from figuring out who they are in real life. A case study in th...

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several...

U.S. Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Notorious Russian Ransomware Operator

A Russian national has been charged and indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ for launching ransomware attacks against "thousands of victims" in the country and across the world. Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, the 30-year-old individual in...

Russian Hacker “Wazawaka” Indicted for Ransomware

A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. U.S. prosecutors say Mikhail Pavolovich Matveev, a.k.a. "Wazawaka" and "Boriselcin" worked with...

New Android Botnet Nexus Being Rented Out on Russian Hacker Forum

By Habiba Rashid Nexus contains a module equipped with encryption capabilities which point towards ransomware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Android Botnet Nexus Being Rented Out on Russian Hacker Forum...

US Marshals Service Data Sold on Russian Hacker Forum

By Waqas The hacker is selling 350 GB worth of data for $150,000 supervised by the forum’s guarantor. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Marshals Service Data Sold on Russian Hacker Forum...

Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Linked to Ryuk Ransomware

A Russian national on February 7, 2023, pleaded guilty in the U.S. to money laundering charges and for attempting to conceal the source of funds obtained in connection with Ryuk ransomware attacks. Denis Mihaqlovic Dubnikov, 30, was arrested in Amsterdam in November 2021 before he was extradited...

Critical Flaw Exploited to Bypass Fortinet Products and Compromise Orgs

By Waqas The flaw is tracked as CVE-2022-40684 in FortiOS, while its exploit is being sold on a popular Russian hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Critical Flaw Exploited to Bypass Fortinet Products and Compromise Orgs...

Feds Forced Travel Firms to Share Surveillance Data on Hacker

The U.S. government ordered two travel companies to provide information about the movement of a Russian citizen suspected of hacking. The surveillance data was used as part of an investigation by the U.S. Secret Service, according to court documents recently unsealed. The revelation of the extent...

Experts concerned over emergence of new Android banking trojan S.O.V.A.

By Waqas Researchers have identified a new Android banking trojan called S.O.V.A. being advertised on a Russian hacker and cybercrime forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Experts concerned over emergence of new Android banking trojan S.O.V.A...

Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

KrebsOnSecurity recently had occasion to contact the Russian Federal Security Service FSB, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSBs website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to...

Microsoft Will Soon Kill Flash on Windows 10 for Good

Plus: A Peloton data leak, Russian hacker details, and more of the week’s top security news...

Tesla Ransomware Hacker Pleads Guilty; Swiss Hacktivist Charged for Fraud

The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday announced updates on two separate cases involving cyberattacks—a Swiss hacktivist and a Russian hacker who planned to plant malware in the Tesla company. A Swiss hacker who was involved in the intrusion of cloud-based surveillance firm Verkada and exposed...

Top Russian hacker forums Maza, Verified hacked; data leaked online

By Waqas It is unclear who hacked these forums but insider discussion believes government authorities were behind the attack as a "friendly warning" message. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top Russian hacker forums Maza, Verified hacked; data leaked online...

Hackers Exploit IT Monitoring Tool Centreon to Target Several French Entities

Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm has been linked to a three-year-long stealthy operation to hack targets by exploiting an IT monitoring tool called Centreon. The intrusion campaign — which breached "several French entities" — is said to have started in late 2017 and...

Russian hacker jailed in US over $19M fraud, 100M users’ data theft

By Deeba Ahmed The 37-year-old hacker Andrei Tyurin was extradited to the US from Georgia in September 2018. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian hacker jailed in US over $19M fraud, 100M users data theft...

NSA Warns Russian Hacker Exploiting VMware Bug to Breach Corporate Networks

The US National Security Agency NSA on Monday issued an advisory warning that Russian threat actors are leveraging recently disclosed VMware vulnerability to install malware on corporate systems and access protected data. Specifics regarding the identities of the threat actor exploiting the VMwar...

Russian Who Hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

A Russian hacker who was found guilty of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring over eight years ago has finally been sentenced to 88 months in United States prison, that's more than seven years by a federal court in San Francisco this week. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 32, of Moscow hacke...