On 16 March 2024, Sentinel Labs identified a suspicious Linux binary uploaded from Ukraine. Initial analysis showed surface similarities with the infamous AcidRain wiper used to disable KA-SAT modems across Europe at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (commonly identified by the ‘Viasat hack’ misnomer). Since our initial finding, no similar samples or variants have been detected or publicly reported until now. This new sample is a confirmed variant called ‘AcidPour’, a wiper with si
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Russia has been accused of attempting to inflame divisions in Germany by publishing an intercepted conversation in which Bundeswehr officials discuss the country’s support for Ukraine, particularly around the supply of Taurus cruise missiles.
The 38-minute conversation, which took place on 19 February 2024, was first published on social media platform Telegram by Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT and a sanctioned propagandist, who said the recording had been provided to her by “comra
SentinelLabs and ClearSky Cyber Security have been tracking a propaganda and disinformation campaign since late November 2023, highly likely orchestrated by Doppelgänger, a suspected Russia-aligned influence operation network known for its persistent and aggressive tactics. Initially focusing on disseminating anti-Ukraine content following the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, Doppelgänger has since broadened its scope, targeting audiences in the US, Israel, Germany, and France.
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Cyber threat actors operating with interests aligned to Belarus and Russia have been linked to a new cyber espionage campaign that likely exploited Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Roundcube webmail servers to target over 80 organizations. According to investigators, these entities are primarily located in Georgia, Poland, and Ukraine and attributed the intrusion set to a threat actor known as Winter Vivern, also known as TA473 and UAC0114. The cybersecurity firm tracks the hacki
An official at the Bangladesh Election Commission has claimed that a cyber-attack “from Ukraine and Germany” caused an election information app to crash as voters went to the polls on 8 January. There has not been an allegation that the incident affected votes in the country, where incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina secured her fourth straight term in office after a record low turnout, as reported by BBC News.
Hasina, who has held power since 2009, is currently the longest-serving female he
The mass outage of Ukrainian mobile and internet provider Kyivstar on December 12 last year has now been attributed to the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU). The attack resulted in a total outage of the networks provided by Kyivstar, which included several early-warning attack systems and caused a surge in traffic on other network providers in Ukraine as people sought alternative means of connectivity. It has now been determined that the group were ling
Cybersecurity researchers at Deep Instinct Lab have revealed a new series of cyberattacks by ‘UAC-0099,’ specifically targeting Ukrainians. These attacks employ common tactics, such as using fabricated court summons to entice targets into executing malicious files.
The group’s activities were initially revealed in May 2023 through the Ukrainian CERT advisory ‘#6710,’ and Deep Instinct has now provided exclusive insights into their latest attack.
According to a blog post from the company, on Dec
Researchers have tracked more activity by an influence campaign linked to Russia that spreads disinformation and propaganda in the US, Germany and Ukraine through a vast network of social media accounts and fake websites.
The campaign, attributed to the Russia-linked influence operation network called Doppelgänger, has been active since at least May 2022. The US tech company Meta previously referred to Doppelgänger as the “largest” and “most aggressively persistent” malign network sponsored by
Ukrainian hackers collaborated with the country's security services, the SBU, to breach Russia's largest private bank, a source within the department confirmed to Recorded Future News. Last week, two groups of pro-Ukrainian hackers, KibOrg and NLB, hacked into Alfa-Bank and claimed to obtain the data of more than 30 million customers, including their names, dates of birth, account numbers, and phone numbers, according to a post on their official website.
Alfa-Bank was sanctioned by the United S
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has received its first contract from the US Space Force to provide customized satellite communications for the military under the company’s new Starshield program, extending the provocative billionaire’s role as a defense contractor.
See: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/starlink-to-the-rescue-1
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is competing with 15 companies, including Viasat Inc., for $900 million in work orders through 2028 under the Space Force’s new “Proliferated
As part of a recently identified cyber operation, the cybersecurity investigators report that a Russia-linked threat actor known as RomCom has been targeting entities supporting Ukraine, including guests at the 2023 NATO Summit taking place July 11-12. The event takes place in Vilnius, Lithuania. The NATO Summit has on the agenda talks focusing on the war in Ukraine and new memberships in the organization, including Sweden and Ukraine.
RomCom attackers are spoofing trusted software solutions t
Researchers have uncovered malware designed to disrupt electric power transmission that may have been used by the Russian government in training exercises for creating or responding to cyberattacks on electric grids.
Known as CosmicEnergy, the malware has capabilities that are comparable to those found in malware known as Industroyer and Industroyer2, both of which have been widely attributed by researchers to Sandworm, the name of one of Russia’s most skilled and cutthroat hacking groups. Sand
Several Polish media and news websites were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that the government said could be the action of Russian hacking groups, the digitalization minister was quoted as saying on 18 May. Warsaw has positioned itself as one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia invaded the country, and Poland says it frequently faces Russian attempts to destabilize the situation in the country. Moscow has consistently denied that it carries out hacking operations.
The risk of a cyber-attack is the “main worry” for broadcasters staging the Eurovision song contest on behalf of war-torn Ukraine, a BBC executive has said. Experts from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre have been drafted in to help thwart any attempts by pro-Russian hackers to sabotage the competition’s public vote on Saturday.
The UK’s BBC director of unscripted programs, said there was no specific intelligence about an attack but that there were “so many contingency plans” in place if
An information and hacking campaign, called Ghostwriter, with links to a foreign state has potentially had a "significant cumulative impact" over many years, according to a report from Cardiff University. The findings, from the Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute, provide the most comprehensive picture to date of the activities of the so-called Ghostwriter campaign.
Tracking its evolving activities via open-source data, the report demonstrates how it has impersonated multiple
The first Linux variant of the Clop ransomware was rife with issues that allowed researchers to create a decryptor tool for victims. SentinelOne said it observed the first Clop (also stylized as Cl0p) ransomware variant targeting Linux systems on 26 December 2022. Clop has existed since about 2019, targeting large companies, financial institutions, primary schools and critical infrastructure across the world. After the group targeted several major South Korean companies like e-commerce giant E
The first Linux variant of the Clop ransomware was rife with issues that allowed researchers to create a decryptor tool for victims. SentinelOne said it observed the first Clop (also stylized as Cl0p) ransomware variant targeting Linux systems on 26 December 2022. Clop has existed since about 2019, targeting large companies, financial institutions, primary schools and critical infrastructure across the world. After the group targeted several major South Korean companies like e-commerce giant E
According to trusted government sources, there is an increasing focus on US Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) to try and replicate the ability of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the unified combatant command with the mission of overseeing the elements of the special operations in the US Armed Services to bring capabilities directly into the battlespace. At a recent meeting, the chief of CYBEROM is quoted as saying that the command is “trying to build our authorities much in the same way Speci
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 appears to have led to a double-digit decrease in stolen payment card records published to the dark web, according to researchers.
In a recent report, investigators analyzed detailed threat intelligence gleaned from the cybercrime underground to compile a report. It reported a 24% year-on-year decrease in the volume of card-not-present records on dark web carding shops in 2022 to 45.6 million and a 62% slump in card present records, to 13.8 million.
Activity Summary - Week Ending on 14 October 2022:
- Red Sky Alliance identified 26,570 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
- Netskope IAD hit 56x
- Analysts identified 556 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
- Bisamware and Chile Locker
- njRat, a.k.a. Bladabindi
- Emotet 2022
- Singtel
- Pinnacle Hack
- Ukraine War
- Optus Part II
Link to full report: IR-22-288-001_weekly288.pdf
