{"id":520,"date":"2025-02-12T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=520"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:28:10","slug":"a-hacker-group-within-russias-notorious-sandworm-unit-is-breaching-western-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/a-hacker-group-within-russias-notorious-sandworm-unit-is-breaching-western-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hacker Group Within Russia\u2019s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Over the last<\/strong>\u00a0decade, the Kremlin&#8217;s most aggressive cyberwar unit, known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/sandworm-kremlin-most-dangerous-hackers\/\">Sandworm<\/a>, has focused its hacking campaigns on tormenting Ukraine, even more so since Russian president Vladimir Putin&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Russia&#8217;s neighbor. Now Microsoft is warning that a team within that notorious hacking group has shifted its targeting, indiscriminately working to breach networks worldwide\u2014and, in the last year, has seemed to show a particular interest in networks in English-speaking Western countries.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/a-hacker-group-within-russias-notorious-sandworm-unit-is-breaching-western-networks\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/russia-sandworm-badpilot-cyberattacks-western-countries\/\">A Hacker Group Within Russia\u2019s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks | WIRED<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: A Hacker Group Within Russia\u2019s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last\u00a0decade, the Kremlin&#8217;s most aggressive cyberwar unit, known as\u00a0Sandworm, has focused its hacking campaigns on tormenting Ukraine, even more so since Russian president Vladimir Putin&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Russia&#8217;s neighbor. Now Microsoft is warning that a team within that notorious hacking group has shifted its targeting, indiscriminately working&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,17],"tags":[40,9,60],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-geopolitics","category-vulnerability","tag-40","tag-russia","tag-sandworm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}