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Rapid 2.0 Ransomware Released, Will Not Encrypt Data on PCs with Russian Locale
Precisely two months on the day since the release of its first version, the group behind the Rapid ransomware strain has released v2.0 today.
- March 23, 2018
- 06:44 PM
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US Sanctions Russia Over NotPetya Outbreak, Energy Grid Hacks, Election Meddling
The United States has imposed sanctions against Russian entities for the NotPetya ransomware outbreak, cyber-attacks on the US power grid, and their attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election process.
- March 15, 2018
- 01:37 PM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Infamous Russian Cyber-Espionage Group Hacks German Government
APT28, an infamous cyber-espionage unit that many security firms believe is acting at the behest of the Russian government, has hacked various German government agencies for more than a year.
- March 01, 2018
- 08:10 AM
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All Five Eyes Countries Formally Accuse Russia of Orchestrating NotPetya Attack
All the countries part of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance — the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand— have made formal statements accusing the Russian Federation of orchestrating the NotPetya ransomware outbreak.
- February 18, 2018
- 05:50 AM
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UK Formally Accuses Russian Military of NotPetya Ransomware Outbreak
The UK has become the first major Western country to formally accuse the Russian military of orchestrating and launching the NotPetya ransomware outbreak.
- February 14, 2018
- 07:55 PM
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Russian Nuke Scientists, Ukrainian Professor Arrested for Bitcoin Mining
Authorities in Russia and Ukraine have arrested suspects this past week on accusations of using work computers to mine Bitcoin.
- February 10, 2018
- 10:16 AM
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Scarabey Ransomware - A Scarab Version Targeting Enterprises
A new version of the Scarab ransomware has been spotted in the wild, but instead of being distributed via email spam campaigns, crooks are brute-forcing computers with weakly-secured RDP connections and are installing the ransomware manually on each system.
- February 02, 2018
- 11:03 AM
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Rep. Devin Nunes Campaign Site Still Hosts Russian SEO Spam From Last Year's Hack
The campaign website of a controversial US politician was hacked last year and hosted Russian SEO spam, according to several sources.
- January 30, 2018
- 06:10 PM
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Dutch Banks, Tax Agency Under DDoS Attacks a Week After Big Russian Hack Reveal
At least three Dutch banks and the Dutch tax office reported on Monday suffering coordinated DDoS attacks against their respective infrastructures.
- January 30, 2018
- 08:20 AM
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Hacker Uses Malware to Steal Gas From Paying Customers
Russian authorities have arrested Denis Zayev in Stavropol, Russia, on accusations of defrauding countless of car owners with malware installed on gas pumps all over southern Russia.
- January 23, 2018
- 06:57 PM
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Russian Cyber-Spies Are Carrying Out Some Pretty Clever Hacks These Days
Some cyber-espionage outfits are so advanced that it takes months of sleuthing and digging through malware code to discover the ways they've carried out some of their hacks.
- January 10, 2018
- 12:30 AM
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UK's NCSC Warns Government Agencies About Russian Antivirus Products
A branch of the UK intelligence forces has sent out a letter to UK government departments and agencies about the use of Russian antivirus software to protect computers that store classified information.
- December 02, 2017
- 08:14 PM
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Russia Wants to Launch Backup DNS System by August 1, 2018
The Russian government is currently discussing plans to build its own "independent internet infrastructure" that will be used by BRICS member states — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
- November 30, 2017
- 10:45 AM
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Facebook Will Let Users See What Russian Propaganda Accounts They Followed
Facebook announced yesterday they would let users see what Facebook pages and Instagram accounts they followed that are linked to supposed Russian propaganda efforts.
- November 23, 2017
- 04:31 AM
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Russia's "Irrefutable Evidence" That US Aided ISIS Is Actually a Video Game Screengrab
The Russian Defense Ministry made a fool of itself today when it posted on Twitter and Facebook "irrefutable evidence" that the US aided ISIS, which turned out to be screengrabs from a well-known video game and a video published online by the Iraqi military in 2016.
- November 14, 2017
- 04:36 PM
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Security Firms Say Bad Rabbit Attack Carried Out by NotPetya Group
Several security firms have come forward today with evidence that shows links connecting the Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreak that happened yesterday with the NotPetya ransomware outbreak that took place at the end of June, this year.
- October 25, 2017
- 07:53 PM
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Kaspersky Gives Its Side of the Story on How the NSA Lost Some Its Hacking Tools
Russian cyber-security vendor Kaspersky Lab published today a report detailing its side of events on the whole Kaspersky-stole-US-government-files-for-Russia saga.
- October 25, 2017
- 05:25 PM
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Bad Rabbit Ransomware Outbreak Hits Eastern Europe
A new ransomware strain named Bad Rabbit is wreaking havoc in many Eastern European countries, affecting both government agencies and private businesses alike.
- October 24, 2017
- 01:23 PM
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Russian Cyberspies Carry Out the Silliest Cyber-Espionage Campaign of the Year
A Russian cyber-espionage group has tried to infect security researchers with malware via a spear-phishing campaign that can easily receive a Pwnie Awards nomination for one of the year's biggest epic fails.
- October 23, 2017
- 01:10 PM
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Kaspersky Opens Code to 3rd-Party Review in Effort to Combat Spying Accusations
In an attempt to dispell rumors that its software is being used as a backdoor into users' computers, Kaspersky Labs said today it would subject its security products to an independent third-party source code review.
- October 23, 2017
- 10:15 AM
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