Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted State-Sponsored Russian Cyber Actors Targeting the Energy Sector

Summary Actions to Take Today to Protect Energy Sector Networks: • Implement and ensure robust network segmentation between IT and ICS networks. • Enforce MFA to authenticate to a system. • Manage the creation of, modification of, use of—and permissions associated with—privileged accounts. This...

Threat Advisory: DoubleZero

Overview The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine released an advisory on March 22, 2022 disclosing another wiper dubbed "DoubleZero" targeting Ukrainian enterprises during Russia's invasion of the country. This wiper was detected as early as March 17, 2022. DoubleZero is yet another...

State-Sponsored Russian Cyber Actors Targeted Energy Sector from 2011 to 2018

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Energy have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA detailing campaigns conducted by state-sponsored Russian cyber actors from 2011 to 2018 that targeted U.S. and international Energy Sector organizations. The CSA highlights...

White House urges US businesses: Protect against potential Russian cyberattacks

On Monday, the White House told US business leaders to toughen up their cybersecurity defenses against a potential cyberattack from Russia. "The Biden-Harris Administration has warned repeatedly about the potential for Russia to engage in malicious cyber activity against the United States in...

CISA Warns CISOs to Brace for Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, a United States federal agency under the oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, is urging business leaders and those responsible for digital security to prepare for attacks and adapt their digital security posture. This is...

‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book "Spam Nation," was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes, and facilitated money...

White House Warns of Possible Russian Cyberattacks

News: The White House has issued its starkest warning that Russia may be planning cyberattacks against critical-sector U.S. companies amid the Ukraine invasion. … Context: The alert comes after Russia has lobbed a series of digital attacks at the Ukrainian government and critical industry sectors...

U.S. Government Warns Companies of Potential Russian Cyber Attacks

The U.S. government on Monday once again cautioned of potential cyber attacks from Russia in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by the west on the country following its military assault on Ukraine last month. "It's part of Russia's playbook," U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement,...

Anonymous Leaks 79GB of Russian Oil Pipeline Giant’s Email Data

By Waqas Anonymous claims it breached Omega Company which is the in-house R&D unit of Transneft, the largest oil pipeline… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Leaks 79GB of Russian Oil Pipeline Giants Email Data...

Sandworm APT Hunts for ASUS Routers with Cyclops Blink Botnet

The modular botnet known as Cyclops Blink, linked to the same advanced persistent threat APT behind the NotPetya wiper attacks, is expanding its device targeting to include ASUS routers. Further, it’s likely that the botnet’s purpose is far more sinister than the average Mirai-knockoff’s penchant...

Russian threat actors leveraging misconfigured multifactor authentication to exploit PrintNightmare vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have issued an alert for enterprises that Russian state-sponsored cyber attackers have obtained network access by exploiting...

Russian threat actor UAC-0056 targets European countries

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The Governmental Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has released an alert about a Russian threat actor UAC-0056 SaintBear, UNC2589, TA471 delivering malwares using email attachments. UNC2589 is a cyber...

New Variant of Russian Cyclops Blink Botnet Targeting ASUS Routers

ASUS routers have emerged as the target of a nascent botnet called Cyclops Blink, almost a month after it was revealed the malware abused WatchGuard firewall appliances as a stepping stone to gain remote access to breached networks. According to a new report published by Trend Micro, the botnet's...

This Week in Security News - March 18, 2022

Global Cyberattacks: Navigating New Frontiers: Trend Micro 2021 Annual Cybersecurity Report, and US Has 'Significant' Cyber Vulnerabilities, But A Sweeping Russian Cyberattack Is Unlikely...

Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware

Researchers are tracking a number of open-source "protestware" projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display "Stand with Ukraine" messages for users, or basic facts about the carnage in Ukraine. The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to...

Ukrainian Secret Service Arrested Hacker Helping Russian Troops

By Waqas Ukraines SBU security service has confirmed arresting a hacker for allegedly aiding the Russian military and sending its… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukrainian Secret Service Arrested Hacker Helping Russian Troops...

Ukraine Secret Service Arrests Hacker Helping Russian Invaders

The Security Service of Ukraine SBU said it has detained a "hacker" who offered technical assistance to the invading Russian troops by providing mobile communication services inside the Ukrainian territory. The anonymous suspect is said to have broadcasted text messages to Ukrainian officials,...

Russia under Attack from New RURansom Wiper

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A series of Wiper Malware attacks have been launched in the continuing cyber war between Russia and Ukraine. Researchers have discovered the RURansom wiper malware, which adds to the current collection of harmful malware. The...

FBI, CISA Warn of Russian Hackers Exploiting MFA and PrintNightmare Bug

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint advisory warning that Russia-backed threat actors hacked the network of an unnamed non-governmental entity by exploiting a combination of flaws. "As early as May 2021,...

PT-2022-16282

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions node-ipc versions 10.1.1 through 10.1.2 Description The issue concerns malicious code embedded in the node-ipc package, targeting users with IP addresses located in Russia or Belarus. This code overwrites files with a heart emoji. The package...