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...

Hackers Increasingly Using 'Browser-in-the-Browser' Technique in Ukraine Related Attacks

A Belarusian threat actor known as Ghostwriter aka UNC1151 has been spotted leveraging the recently disclosed browser-in-the-browser BitB technique as part of their credential phishing campaigns exploiting the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The method, which masquerades as a legitimate domain ...

The Last Cell Tower in Mariupol

For weeks, a lone mobile base station allowed thousands in the besieged Ukrainian city to stay connected—until Russian troops arrived...

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware | Trellix

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware By John Fokker, Jambul Tologonov · March 31, 2022 Introduction It isn’t often the whole world gets an inside look of the business operations of a top tier cybercriminal group. Very early on in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis the predominantly...

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware | Trellix

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware By John Fokker, Jambul Tologonov · March 31, 2022 Introduction It isn’t often the whole world gets an inside look of the business operations of a top tier cybercriminal group. Very early on in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis the predominantly...

MSHTML Flaw Exploited to Attack Russian Dissidents

A spearphishing campaign targeting Russian citizens and government entities that are not aligned with the actions of the Russian government is the latest in numerous threats that have emerged since Russia invaded the Ukraine in February. Researchers from MalwareBytes identified a campaign last we...

New spear phishing campaign targets Russian dissidents

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi. -- Updated to clarify the two different campaigns Cobalt Strike and Rat Several threat actors have taken advantage of the war in Ukraine to launch a number of cyber attacks. The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team is actively monitoring these threats...

Anonymous Hacks 2 Russian Industrial Firms, Leak 112GB of Data for Ukraine

By Waqas Anonymous has taken Operation OpRussia a step further by targeting MashOil and RostProekt, which happened to be giants… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Hacks 2 Russian Industrial Firms, Leak 112GB of Data for Ukraine...

A week in security (March 21 – 27)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Anti-war open-source software developer targets Russians and Belarussians with “protestware” Elden Ring exploit traps players in infinite death loop Update now! Many HP printers affected by three critical security vulnerabilities White House urges US businesses:...