russia’s war on ukraine – Computer Security Articles

Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

April 15, 2024 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alexandr ermakov, andrey sokol, Breadcrumbs, fory66399, hkleaks, Latest Warnings, metamask, privnote, privnote.com, russia's war on ukraine, taylor monahan, tornote.io, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:12:16 +0000

A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service Privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of their operations recently when they threatened to sue a software company. The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses will be automatically altered to include a different payment address controlled by the scammers.

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From Cybercrime Saul Goodman to the Russian GRU

February 7, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, aleksei valerievich safronov, congressional research service, constella intelligence, djamix, DomainTools.com, gru, guardia civil, mark rasch, mazafaka, meduza, Ne'er-Do-Well News, russia's war on ukraine, stalker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:10:18 +0000

In 2021, the exclusive Russian cybercrime forum Mazafaka was hacked. The leaked user database shows one of the forum’s founders was an attorney who advised Russia’s top hackers on the legal risks of their work, and what to do if they got caught. A review of this user’s hacker identities shows that during his time on the forums he served as an officer in the special forces of the GRU, the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation.

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Costa Rica May Be Pawn in Conti Ransomware Group’s Bid to Rebrand, Evade Sanctions

May 31, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, advintel, conti, costa rica, crprensa.com, cyberscoop, data breaches, data ransom, hive, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, russia's war on ukraine, unc1756

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 19:57:58 +0000

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti. Ransomware experts say there is good reason to believe the same cybercriminals are behind both attacks, and that Hive has been helping Conti rebrand and evade international sanctions targeting extortion payouts to cybercriminals operating in Russia.

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Russia to Rent Tech-Savvy Prisoners to Corporate IT?

May 2, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, Ne'er-Do-Well News, russia's war on ukraine

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 21:29:34 +0000

Faced with a brain drain of smart people fleeing the country following its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation is floating a new strategy to address a worsening shortage of qualified information technology experts: Forcing tech-savvy people within the nation’s prison population to perform low-cost IT work for domestic companies.

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

March 17, 2022 admin alex holden, GitHub, Hold Security, protestware, russia's war on ukraine, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:33:21 +0000

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 erase files on computers that appear to be coming from Russian or Belarusian Internet addresses.

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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

March 11, 2022 admin anycast, Bill Woodcock, DNS, john todd, Latest Warnings, linx, london internet exchange, megafon, Packet Clearing House, quad9, rostelecom, russia's war on ukraine, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:50:11 +0000

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

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Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU

March 8, 2022 admin cogent, Doug Madory, ICANN, kentik, lumen technologies, neil macfarquhar, russia's war on ukraine, Sergey Vovnenko

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 23:35:15 +0000

Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. Lumen’s decision comes just days after a similar exit by backbone provider Cogent, and amid a news media crackdown in Russia that has already left millions of Russians in the dark about what is really going on with their president’s war in Ukraine.