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In 2010, Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges were attacked and rendered useless through a computer virus that became known as Stuxnet.  It was the first case in which a hacker attack, coordinated by nations (presumably the US and Israel), hit a large military target in the “real world.”  A worldwide race to create or acquire cyber weapons was then just taking shape. 

Fast forward to last week (11 years later), Ukraine was hit by a massive cyber-attack that targeted government websites.  Posted

Activity Summary - Week Ending on 14 January 2022:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 24,345 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
• Microsoft IP’s in UK and N. Ireland hit
• Analysts identified 1,435 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Rook Ransomware
• More Log4j
• Ukraine Cyber Bust
• UK NHS
• Who’s Winning?
• Google Docs
• The Electric Grid’s Hot Wires
• BLM suing LAPD

Link to full report: IR-22-014-001_weekly014.pdf

The US and the UK have ‘quietly’ sent cyber warfare experts to Ukraine to help sabotage any cyber warfare threats like that in the 2015 Ukraine power grid hack when Russian hackers remotely took over a power company’s control center.  It was the first publicly international acknowledged attack using digital weaponry that attacked the Ukrainian power grid, causing power outages across the country.  In the hopes of protecting the Ukraine, as the US and allies speculate the next move of Russia, bot

Activity Summary - Week Ending on 12 November 2021:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 27,845 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
• Analysts identified 3,224 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Sality remains the top Malware Variant at 24,282 Observation
• Chaos Ransomware
• Fake Ecommerce and Black Friday
• Robinhood Hit (Again)
• CISA 22-01
• Ukraine & Gamaredon SSU Arrests
• Pakistan and Russia
• Cyber Attack US Federal Indictments
• FIN7 still Kicking Around

Link to full repo

Ukrainian authorities have detain a criminal gang who laundered funds for Russian hacking groups.  Ukraine’s national police detained suspects on 25 October 2021, for stealing funds from cryptocurrency wallets and laundering profits for cybercrime organizations.   

The arrests took place as part of a joint investigation with US authorities, the Ukrainian National Police (NPU) said in a press release.  An undisclosed number of suspects were detained following house searchers across the country.

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Law enforcement is on a roll.  Europol members recently arrested numerous people in connection with a US law enforcement sting; last week Mexico arrested hacktivist Commander X; and now police in Ukraine reported earlier this week they arrested members of a major ransomware gang.  The arrests mark the first time a law enforcement agency has announced a mass arrest of a prolific hacker group that had extorted Americans by either encrypting an organization's files or threatening to leak them to th