Russian Ministry Website Hacked to Display “Glory To Ukraine” Message

By Deeba Ahmed The targeted website which belongs to the Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing, and Utilities, was also asked to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Ministry Website Hacked to Display "Glory To Ukraine" Message...

Anonymous Hacktivists Leak 1TB of Top Russian Law Firm Data

By Waqas Rustam Kurmaev and Partners work with the Russian government and other high-profile banking, media, oil, and industrial companies,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Hacktivists Leak 1TB of Top Russian Law Firm Data...

AM Live Vulnerability Management Conference 2022: my impressions and position

Hello everyone! This episode will be about the AM Live Vulnerability Management online conference. I participated in it on May 17th. Alternative video link for Russia: The event lasted 2 hours. Repeating everything that has been said is difficult and makes little sense. Those who want can watch t...

Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICPy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. I...

Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICPy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. I...

Costa Rica May Be Pawn in Conti Ransomware Group’s Bid to Rebrand, Evade Sanctions

Costa Ricas national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware...

Microsoft Releases Workarounds for Office Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation

Microsoft on Monday published guidance for a newly discovered zero-day security flaw in its Office productivity suite that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The weakness, now assigned the identifier CVE-2022-30190, is rated 7.8 out of 10 for severity on the CVSS...

Hackers Selling US Colleges VPN Credentials on Russian Forums- FBI

By Waqas The network credentials and VPN access information were mainly acquired through ransomware, spear-phishing, and other cyberattacks. According to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Selling US Colleges VPN Credentials on Russian Forums- FBI...

FBI Warns About Hackers Selling VPN Credentials for U.S. College Networks

Network credentials and virtual private network VPN access for colleges and universities based in the U.S. are being advertised for sale on underground and public criminal marketplaces. "This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, cou...

Researchers Find New Malware Attacks Targeting Russian Government Entities

An unknown advanced persistent threat APT group has been linked to a series of spear-phishing attacks targeting Russian government entities since the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war in late February 2022. "The campaigns ... are designed to implant a Remote Access Trojan RAT that can be used to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29242

GOST engine is a reference implementation of the Russian GOST crypto algorithms for OpenSSL. TLS clients using GOST engine when ciphersuite TLSGOSTR341112256WITHKUZNYECHIKCTROMAC is agreed and the server uses 512 bit GOST secret keys are vulnerable to buffer overflow. GOST engine version 3.0.1...

Chinese "Twisted Panda" Hackers Caught Spying on Russian Defense Institutes

At least two research institutes located in Russia and a third likely target in Belarus have been at the receiving end of an espionage attack by a Chinese nation-state advanced persistent threat APT. The attacks, codenamed "Twisted Panda," come in the backdrop of Russia's military invasion of...

New Robo-Dialing Campaign Lets Users Prank Call Russian Bureaucrats

By Waqas If you want to prevent Russian officials from performing their government duties, theres a website that can fulfill… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Robo-Dialing Campaign Lets Users Prank Call Russian Bureaucrats...

Researchers Expose Inner Workings of Billion-Dollar Wizard Spider Cybercrime Gang

The inner workings of a cybercriminal group known as the Wizard Spider have been exposed, shedding light on its organizational structure and motivations. "Most of Wizard Spider's efforts go into hacking European and U.S. businesses, with a special cracking tool used by some of their attackers to...

This Hacktivist Site Lets You Prank Call Russian Officials

To protest the war in Ukraine, WasteRussianTime.today auto-dials Russian government officials, connects them to each other, and lets you listen in to their confusion...

Russian Conti Ransomware Gang Threatens to Overthrow New Costa Rican Government

The notorious Conti ransomware gang, which last month staged an attack on Costa Rican administrative systems, has threatened to "overthrow" the new government of the country. "We are determined to overthrow the government by means of a cyber attack, we have already shown you all the strength and...

Attacks on Managed Service Providers Expected to Increase

CISA, NSA, FBI, and similar organizations in the other Five Eyes countries are warning that attacks on MSPs--as a vector to their customers--are likely to increase. No details about what this prediction is based on. Makes sense, though. The SolarWinds attack was incredibly successful for the...

A week in security (May 9 – 15)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: How to spot the signs of a virtual kidnap scam Virtual credit cards coming to Chrome: What you need to know Clearview AI banned from selling facial recognition data in the US Cyberattacks on SATCOM networks attributed to Russian threat actors F5 BIG-IP vulnerabilit...

Low-rent RAT Worries Researchers

For about the price of a cup of Starbucks latte, a hacker is renting out a remote access trojan designed to backdoor targeted networks. Dubbed as Dark Crystal RAT or DCRat, the malware is being peddled online to hackers in Russian by a lone rookie malware writer with a penchant for cut-rate...

U.S. Government Attributes Cyberattacks on SATCOM Networks to Russian State-Sponsored Malicious Cyber Actors

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have updated the joint cybersecurity advisory, Strengthening Cybersecurity of SATCOM Network Providers and Customers, originally released March 17, 2022, with U.S. government attribution to Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors. The United...