Russian hacking group targets home and small office routers to spy on users

British security officials found that a group linked to the Russian military is spying on users of compromised Small Office/Home Office SOHO routers in a broad cyber espionage campaign. A Microsoft blog goes into the technical details of these attacks. The group, which we’ll refer to as APT28, bu...

Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens

Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens...

PT-2026-30786

My fellow Hungarians! I guarantee the integrity of the parliamentary elections on April 12, and that I will not exploit the zero-day vulnerability codenamed “VLAN Ghost Injection Vulnerability” CVE-2026-39011, as suggested by the Russian GRU agency! https://t.co/JaV7pRMngc...

MAL-2026-2448 Malicious code in supervisors (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 c9f99997c1443b3be7bee7a7d490d05077e1d1c48bdd801f7357881ab1a73ca0 The setup.py contains a malicious code that skips execution if the system uses Russian language. Otherwise, it downloads the URL of the next stage payload from...

Russian CTRL Toolkit Delivered via Malicious LNK Files Hijacks RDP via FRP Tunnels

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote access toolkit of Russian-origin that's distributed via malicious Windows shortcut LNK files that are disguised as private key folders. The CTRL toolkit, according to Censys, is custom-built using .NET and includes various executables" to...

TA446 Deploys DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit in Targeted Spear-Phishing Campaign

Proofpoint has disclosed details of a targeted email campaign in which threat actors with ties to Russia are leveraging the recently disclosed DarkSword exploit kit to target iOS devices. The activity has been attributed with high confidence to the Russian state-sponsored threat group known as...

Bearlyfy Hits Russian Firms with Custom GenieLocker Ransomware

A pro-Ukrainian group called Bearlyfy has been attributed to more than 70 cyber attacks targeting Russian companies since it first surfaced in the threat landscape in January 2025, with recent attacks leveraging a custom Windows ransomware strain codenamed GenieLocker. "Bearlyfy also known as...

Russian Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for TA551 Botnet-Driven Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies. Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who went by the online aliases...

FBI, CISA warn of Russian hackers hijacking Signal and WhatsApp accounts

In a Public Service Announcement PSA the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warn the public about ongoing Russian-linked phishing campaigns that aim to gain access to messaging accounts. Earlier this month we wrote about a large‑scale...

FBI Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal, WhatsApp in Mass Phishing Attacks

Threat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications CMAs like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites...

A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files

Plus: A porn-quitting app exposed the masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users, Russian hackers are trying to take over people’s Signal accounts, and more...

BlackSanta Malware Targets HR Staff with Fake CV Downloads

Aryaka researchers have identified a new threat from a Russian-speaking group using 'BlackSanta' malware. By disguising attacks as job applications, hackers are bypassing security to target recruitment workflows...

APT28 Uses BEARDSHELL and COVENANT Malware to Spy on Ukrainian Military

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28 has been observed using a pair of implants dubbed BEARDSHELL and COVENANT to facilitate long‑term surveillance of Ukrainian military personnel. The two malware families have been put to use since April 2024, ESET said in a new report shar...

Dutch Intel Warns of Russian Hackers Hijacking Signal, WhatsApp Attacks

Dutch intelligence warns Russian hackers are hijacking Signal and WhatsApp accounts using fake support bots and verification code scams targeting officials and journalists...

APT28-Linked Campaign Deploys BadPaw Loader and MeowMeow Backdoor in Ukraine

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Russian cyber campaign that has targeted Ukrainian entities with two previously undocumented malware families named BadPaw and MeowMeow. "The attack chain initiates with a phishing email containing a link to a ZIP archive. Once extracted, ...

Defense Contractor Employee Jailed for Selling 8 Zero-Days to Russian Broker

A 39-year-old Australian national who was previously employed at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris has been sentenced to a little over seven years in prison for selling eight zero-day exploits to Russian exploit broker Operation Zero in exchange for millions of dollars. Peter Williams pleaded guil...

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...

Google Ties Suspected Russian Actor to CANFAIL Malware Attacks on Ukrainian Orgs

A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations with malware known as CANFAIL. Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG described the hacking group as possibly affiliated with Russian intelligence services. The threat actor is assessed to have...

Spam and phishing in 2025

The year in figures 44.99% of all emails sent worldwide and 43.27% of all emails sent in the Russian web segment were spam 32.50% of all spam emails were sent from Russia Kaspersky Mail Anti-Virus blocked 144,722,674 malicious email attachments Our Anti-Phishing system thwarted 554,002,207 attemp...