New Hacking Campaign Targeting Ukrainian Government with IcedID Malware

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has warned of a new wave of social engineering campaigns delivering IcedID malware and leveraging Zimbra exploits with the goal of stealing sensitive information. Attributing the IcedID phishing attacks to a threat cluster named UAC-0041, th...

CISO Forum 2022: the first major Russian security conference in the New Reality

Hello everyone! After a two-year break, I took part in Moscow CISO Forum 2022 with a small talk "Malicious open source: the cost of using someone elses code". Alternative video link for Russia: CISO Forum is the first major Russian conference since the beginning of The New Reality of Information...

GitHub Blocks Accounts of Two Large Russian Banks Amid US Sanctions

By Waqas As of now, this move has mainly impacted two large banks reportedly Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, and some individual… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: GitHub Blocks Accounts of Two Large Russian Banks Amid US Sanctions...

Haskers Gang Gives Away ZingoStealer Malware to Other Cybercriminals for Free

A crimeware-related threat actor known as Haskers Gang has released an information-stealing malware called ZingoStealer for free on, allowing other criminal groups to leverage the tool for nefarious purposes. "It features the ability to steal sensitive information from victims and can download...

Ukraine Thwart Russian Industroyer 2 Malware Attack on Energy Provider

By Deeba Ahmed The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA claims to thwart a malware attack by the Russian military… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukraine Thwart Russian Industroyer 2 Malware Attack on Energy Provider...

Anonymous Hits Russian Ministry of Culture- Leaks 446GB of Data

By Waqas The trove of leaked data is now available on the official website of DDoSecrets, while Anonymous vows to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Hits Russian Ministry of Culture- Leaks 446GB of Data...

Conti ransomware offshoot targets Russian organizations

Thanks to the Threat Intelligence team for their help with this article. Conti, the infamous ransomware created by a group of Russian and Eastern European cybercriminals, has again made headlines after a hacking group used its leaked source code to create another variant of the ransomware and...

Anonymous Hits 3 Russian Entities, Leaks 400 GB Worth of Emails

By Waqas Anonymous has taken Operation OpRussia a step further by targeting Aerogas, Forest, and Petrovsky Fort, which happened to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Hits 3 Russian Entities, Leaks 400 GB Worth of Emails...

A week in security (April 4 – 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Why data protection and privacy are not the same, and why that matters: Lock and Code S03E09 YouTube channels of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, and other musicians compromised Successful operations against Russian Sandworm and Strontium groups targeting...

TSA’s Terrorist Watch List Comes for Amtrak Passengers

Plus: Microsoft seizes Russian GRU domains, Cash App’s data breach, and Obama’s disinfo admission...

Successful operations against Russian Sandworm and Strontium groups targeting Ukraine revealed

The US Department of Justice DoJ and Microsoft have taken the sting out of two operations believed to be controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate GRU. On Wednesday, the DOJ announced that it had disrupted GRU’s control over thousands of internet-connected firewall...

WatchGuard Didn't Explicitly Disclose a Flaw Exploited by Hackers

The security vendor kept a critical vulnerability in its firewall appliances quiet even as it was under attack from a Russian hacking group...

US Disrupts Russian Botnet

The Justice Department announced the disruption of a Russian GRU-controlled botnet: The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network hardware devices under the control of a threat...

FBI Shut Down Russia-linked "Cyclops Blink" Botnet That Infected Thousands of Devices

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ announced that it neutralized Cyclops Blink, a modular botnet controlled by a threat actor known as Sandworm, which has been attributed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation GRU. "The operation...

Anonymous Affiliate NB65 Breach State-Run Russian Broadcaster; Leak 786GB of Data

By Waqas The data leaked by the Anonymous affiliate group contains 4,000 files and more than 900,000 emails from Russian… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Affiliate NB65 Breach State-Run Russian Broadcaster; Leak 786GB of Data...

Germany Shuts Down Russian Dark Web Market Hydra; Seizes $25M in BTC

By Waqas On Tuesday, April 5th, Germanys Federal Criminal Police Office Bundeskriminalamt announced the seizure and closure of the worlds largest Russian… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Germany Shuts Down Russian Dark Web Market Hydra; Seizes $25M in BTC...

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical Spring4Shell Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added the recently disclosed remote code execution RCE vulnerability affecting the Spring Framework, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on "evidence of active exploitation." The critical severity flaw,...

BlackGuard Password Stealing Malware Being Sold on Russian Hacking Forums

By Deeba Ahmed Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers have discovered sophisticated new info stealing malware available as malware-as-a-service on Russian hacking forums. In… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BlackGuard Password Stealing Malware Being Sold on Russian Hacking Forums...

Experts Shed Light on BlackGuard Infostealer Malware Sold on Russian Hacking Forums

A previously undocumented "sophisticated" information-stealing malware named BlackGuard is being advertised for sale on Russian underground forums for a monthly subscription of $200. "BlackGuard has the capability to steal all types of information related to Crypto wallets, VPN, Messengers, FTP...

Russian Wiper Malware Likely Behind Recent Cyberattack on Viasat KA-SAT Modems

The cyberattack aimed at Viasat that temporarily knocked KA-SAT modems offline on February 24, 2022, the same day Russian military forces invaded Ukraine, is believed to have been the consequence of wiper malware, according to the latest research from SentinelOne. The findings come a day after th...