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Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years

July 26, 2023 admin evil corp., Fancy Bear, financial times, Group-IB, gru, ilya sachkov, kaspersky lab, maksim yakubets, max seddon, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergei Mikhailov, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:29:40 +0000

The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and hidden from public view, and he joins a growing roster of former Russian cybercrime fighters who are now serving hard time for farcical treason convictions.

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A week in security (April 17 – 23)

April 24, 2023 admin airbnb scam, alphv ransomware, cambridge analytica settlement claim, chrome zero-day, domino backdoor, Facebook, facebook hoax, fake chrome update, fake irs tax email, Fancy Bear, instagram scam, living-off-the-land, lockbit ransomware, lost injured dog facebook hoax, lotl attack, malwarebytes admin, news, Qbot, ransomware, ransomware in germany report, spring cleaning your browser, swatting-as-aservice, tech support scam

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The most interesting security related news from the week of April 17 – 23.

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Fancy Bear known to be exploiting vulnerability in Cisco routers

April 24, 2023 admin APT28, Cisco, cve--2017-6742, Exploits and vulnerabilities, Fancy Bear, gru, jaguar tooth, news, snmp, Sofacy

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A joint advisory about a Cisco vulnerability by several US and UK agencies gives us a peek inside the minds of ideologically motivated cybercriminals

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APT28 attack uses old PowerPoint trick to download malware

September 28, 2022 admin APT28, Fancy Bear, news, one drive, PowerPoint, Powershell, syncappvpublishingserver

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The Russian APT known as Fancy Bear was caught using an old mouseover technique that doesn’t need macros

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CISA list of 95 new known exploited vulnerabilities raises questions

March 14, 2022 admin adam kujawa, Adobe Flash Player, bod 22-01, cisa, Cisco, Exploits and vulnerabilities, Fancy Bear, fceb, known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, Lazarus Group, ripple20

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:18:33 +0000

When CISA decided to add 95 known exploited vulnerabilities to its catalog in one day, we decided to do some digging.

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A week in security (October 28 – November 3)

November 4, 2019 admin a week in security, adobe creative cloud, Advanced persistent threats, american cancer society, Android, APT, blogger, cybersecurity challenges, data breach, disaster donation scam, emoji app, esports, Fancy Bear, fraud, FTC, gafgyt, internet, journalists, MaaS, Magecart, Malware-as-a-Service, messagetap, nuclear power corp of india, raccoon, retina-x, sextortion, SMB, stalkerware, US Federal Trade Commission, wordpress

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:37:57 +0000

A roundup of the latest cybersecurity news for the week of October 28 – November 3, including cyberattacks against SMBs, the Internet’s 50th birthday, stalkerware, donation scams, and more.

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A week in security (August 5 – 11)

August 12, 2019 admin a week in security, APT28, awis, backdoors, bitcoin, bmi, brain-machine interface, chrome incognito, CTNT report, dslr flaw, Facebook, Fancy Bear, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services, IRIS, mark zuckerberg, Messenger Kids, phishing, protonmail, ransomware, robocall, robocall scam, sextortion, smart homes, steam, Strontium, weekly blog roundup

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:38:31 +0000

The latest cybersecurity news for the week of August 5–11. We touch on problematic backdoors, the grim possibility of the Internet of Thoughts, and smart home improvement. We also released a retrospective report on ransomware.

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