Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms

The campaigns primarily targeted countries outside the US. But the same mechanisms could be used in “hack and leak” operations like those that roiled the 2016 campaign...

OldGremlin Ransomware Group Bedevils Russian Orgs

A new cybercriminal group called OldGremlin has been targeting Russian companies – including banks, industrial enterprises and medical firms – with ransomware attacks. OldGremlin relies on a bevy of tools, including custom backdoors called TinyPosh and TinyNode, to gain an initial foothold in the...

A New Hacking Group Hitting Russian Companies With Ransomware

As ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure continue to spike in recent months, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new entrant that has been actively trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers i...

A New Hacking Group Hitting Russian Companies With Ransomware

As ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure continue to spike in recent months, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new entrant that has been actively trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers i...

Matt Blaze on OTP Radio Stations

Matt Blaze discusses also here an interesting mystery about a Cuban one-time-pad radio station, and a random number generator error that probably helped arrest a pair of Russian spies in the US...

U.S. Announces Charges Against 2 Russian and 2 Iranian Hackers

Immediately after revealing criminal charges against 5 Chinese and 2 Malaysian hackers, the United States government yesterday also made two separate announcements charging two Iranian and two Russian hackers and added them to the FBI's most-wanted list. The two Russian nationals—Danil Potekhin a...

The International Playbook for Foiling Russian Interference

The Kremlin has meddled in so many elections that democracy’s immune system has gotten wise to its threats. Here are lessons other countries can teach us...

U.S. Voter Databases Offered for Free on Dark Web, Report

UPDATE Personal information for several million American voters has turned up on a Russian underground cybercrime forum, according to reports – and users are purportedly looking to monetize it using a recently launched State Department program meant to prevent election-meddling. The personal...

Musk confirms Russian hacker tried hiring Tesla worker for malware attack

By Zara Khan The hacker wanted to carry out a DDoS attack on Tesla while stealing sensitive information with the help of malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Musk confirms Russian hacker tried hiring Tesla worker for malware attack...

Elon Musk Confirms, Tesla Factory A Target of Foiled Cyberattack

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has confirmed reports that the Tesla Gigafactory Nevada was a target of a cyberattack earlier in August, which was subsequently thwarted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tesla Gigafactory Nevada is a lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle factory near...

Magecart’s Success Paves Way For Cybercriminal Credit Card 'Sniffer' Market

The Magecart threat group has dominated headlines for its use of malicious JavaScript code, which is injected into e-commerce websites to exfiltrate customer payment card data. But new research points to a growing industry on underground forums where so-called “sniffers” are being advertised, sol...

Russian Arrested After Offering $1 Million to U.S. Company Employee for Planting Malware

Hackers always find a way in, even if there's no software vulnerability to exploit. The FBI has arrested a Russian national who recently traveled to the United States and offered $1 million in bribe to an employee of a targeted company for his help in installing malware into the company's compute...

Russian Arrested After Offering $1 Million to U.S. Company Employee for Planting Malware

Hackers always find a way in, even if there's no software vulnerability to exploit. The FBI has arrested a Russian national who recently traveled to the United States and offered $1 million in bribe to an employee of a targeted company for his help in installing malware into the company's compute...

The NSA and FBI Expose Fancy Bear's Sneaky Hacking Tool

Plus: TikTok tracking, Russian SIMs, and more of this week's top security news...

FBI and NSA expose Russian State hacking tool for Linux systems

By Sudais Asif Dubbed Drovorub by the agencies; the malware hacking tool is capable of spying on Linux systems. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI and NSA expose Russian State hacking tool for Linux systems...

Drovorub Malware

The NSA and FBI have jointly disclosed Drovorub, a Russian malware suite that targets Linux. Detailed advisory. Fact sheet. News articles. Reddit thread...

NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks

UPDATE The U.S. government is warning of new malware, dubbed Drovorub, that targets Linux systems. It also claims the malware was developed for a Russian military unit in order to carry out cyber-espionage operations. The malware, Drovorub, comes with a multitude of espionage capabilities,...

Joint NSA and FBI Cybersecurity Advisory Discloses Russian Malware Drovorub

The National Security Agency NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a cybersecurity advisory introducing previously undisclosed Russian malware. NSA and the FBI attributed the malware, dubbed Drovorub, to Russian advanced persistent threat APT actors. The Cybersecurity and...

openSUSE Security Update : opera (openSUSE-2020-1148)

This update for opera fixes the following issues : - Update to version 70.0.3728.71 - DNA-86267 Make Recently closed tabs appearance consistent with Search for open tabs. - DNA-86988 Opera 70 translations - DNA-87530 Zen news leads not loading - DNA-87636 Fix displaying folder icon for closed...

NetWalker Ransomware Rakes in $29M Since March

The NetWalker ransomware has been around for about a year, but it has really made a name for itself in 2020, racking up around $29 million in extortion gains just since March. First detected in August 2019, NetWalker lingered around before surging in use in March through June, according to an...