Hackers Exploit Signal’s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes post, februari 19, 2025februari 24, 2025 Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts. “The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts is the abuse of the app’s legitimate ‘linked devices’ feature that enables… Continue Reading
Russian spies had access to EMA systems for four months in 2020 hack post, februari 14, 2025juni 13, 2025 Russian attackers were behind the hack of the European Medicines Agency EMA in 2020. They had “unauthorized access to knowledge of COVID-19 vaccines and personal correspondence” for at least four months. The Dutch police warned the rest of Europe in 2021 that these attackers may have access to other European… Continue Reading
Russische spionnen en de ‘hack van Amsterdam’ post, februari 14, 2025juni 13, 2025 Een rechercheur van de Nederlandse politie doet in het voorjaar van 2021 iets opmerkelijks. Al maanden is de politie betrokken bij een opsporingsonderzoek naar een ernstige hack – genaamd 26Blackburn – bij een internationale organisatie in Amsterdam. Ze komen alleen niet verder, het spoor loopt dood. Rechercheurs en Openbaar Ministerie… Continue Reading
A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks post, februari 12, 2025juli 3, 2025 Over the last decade, the Kremlin’s most aggressive cyberwar unit, known as Sandworm, has focused its hacking campaigns on tormenting Ukraine, even more so since Russian president Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Russia’s neighbor. Now Microsoft is warning that a team within that notorious hacking group has shifted its targeting, indiscriminately working… Continue Reading
Gamaredon Deploys Android Spyware “BoneSpy” and “PlainGnome” in Former Soviet States post, december 12, 2024december 13, 2024 The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as Gamaredon has been attributed to two new Android spyware tools called BoneSpy and PlainGnome, marking the first time the adversary has been discovered using mobile-only malware families in its attack campaigns. “BoneSpy and PlainGnome target former Soviet states and focus on Russian-speaking victims,” Lookout said in an analysis…. Continue Reading
Wanted Russian Hacker Linked to Hive and LockBit Ransomware Arrested post, november 30, 2024december 2, 2024 A Russian cybercriminal wanted in the U.S. in connection with LockBit and Hive ransomware operations has been arrested by law enforcement authorities in the country. According to a news report from Russian media outlet RIA Novosti, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev has been accused of developing a malicious program designed to encrypt files and… Continue Reading
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack post, november 22, 2024juli 3, 2025 In a first, Russia’s APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street. For determined hackers, sitting in a car outside a target’s building and using radio equipment to breach its Wi-Fi network has long… Continue Reading
Planned Parenthood confirms cyberattack as RansomHub claims breach post, september 5, 2024 Planned Parenthood has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack affecting its IT systems, forcing it to take parts of its infrastructure offline to contain the damage. Planned Parenthood is a New York-based nonprofit organization that provides a range of reproductive health care services, education, and advocacy for birth control. It is… Continue Reading
White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown post, september 5, 2024 The Biden administration on Wednesday seized 32 websites and charged two employees of a state-owned media outlet connected to a $10 million scheme to distribute pro-Kremlin propaganda, and claimed the actions were necessary to counter Russia’s attempts to influence the upcoming US presidential election. This is all part of the… Continue Reading
State-Sponsored Russian Media LeveragesMeliorator Software for Foreign MalignInfluence Activity post, juli 9, 2024juni 13, 2025 The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), in partnershipwith the Netherlands General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), Netherlands Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD), the Netherlands Police (DNP), and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), (hereinafter referred to as the authoring organizations) are… Continue Reading