On October 2 Team OneFist announced the start of Operation Silence of the Steppe, a joint action in partnership with Anonymous which target russian ISP infrastructure. The goal is to paralyze russian telecommunications, Internet and voice services in response to Putin's sham elections which claiming four occupied regions
Pro-ukrainian hacker group Team OneFist has targeted russian telecoms in Operation Boomerang.
For the first time in known history, hackers from within Russia have begun a systemized effort to hack Russian government affiliated websites. Earlier today, Oct. 2, Kyiv Post was contacted by hackers who identified themselves as part of the National Republican Army (NRA). As Kyiv Post has reported before, the
EU DisinfoLab has during the past three months been investigating a large disinformation campaign targeting western audience with pro-Russian propaganda. The complete report from EU Disinfo Lab can be found here: Doppelganger. Under the hood of a DoppelgängerMedia clones serving Russian propaganda September 27, 2022 This work is the result
Mandiant researchers are tracking multiple self-proclaimed hacktivist groups working in support of Russian interests. They assess with moderate confidence that moderators of the purported hacktivist Telegram channels “XakNet Team,” “Infoccentr,” and “CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn” are coordinating their operations with Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)-sponsored cyber threat actors. Mandiant's
The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 (aka Fancy Bear) has been found leveraging a new code execution method that makes use of mouse movement in decoy Microsoft PowerPoint documents to deploy malware. The technique "is designed to be triggered when the user starts the presentation mode and
Today Anonymous hacker collective of Russia launched DDoS attack on websites of Germany. The reason for the attack is probably that German ministers have indicated that people fleeing Russia could apply for asylum in Germany after President Vladimir Putin ordered what he called a "partial military mobilization."
Before Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his speech Wednesday, Team OneFist prepared a meaningful surprise too remarkable to ignore as it came in the form of a series of cyber offensives. The first one is the attack on a core private branch exchange (PBX), which covers the greater, if not
The familiar, yet ineffaceable voice from a video of the decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement Anonymous echoed on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon as the movement declared war against Iran and commenced a series of attacks against the government. After several days of massive protests in various areas
"The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Sandworm (aka: Quedagh, Voodoo Bear, TEMP.Noble, IRON VIKING, G0034, ELECTRUM, TeleBots, IRIDIUM, Blue Echidna) has been observed masquerading as telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware." Sandworm is a state-backed threat actor attributed by the US government as part
Revolut has suffered a cyberattack that gave an unauthorized third party access to personal information of tens of thousands of clients. Founded in 2015, Revolut is a financial technology company that has seen a rapid growth, now offering banking, money management, and investment services to customers all over the world.
Researchers at Akamai are reporting a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Eastern Europe, which set records by peaking at 704.8 Mpps as the cyberattackers tried to cripple the organization's business operations. The attackers began by targeting the victim's primary data center, before expanding unexpectedly and
TrendMicro have recently observed malicious actors exploiting both recently disclosed and older Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities to deliver cryptocurrency-mining malware. Oracle WebLogic Server is typically used for developing and deploying high-traffic enterprise applications on cloud environments and engineered and conventional systems. One of the older vulnerabilities that is still being
The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) recently published a 38-page study, Russian Cyberwarfare: Unpacking the Kremlin’s Capabilities by two esteemed researchers, Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov. The opening premise is that Russia has not demonstrated its cyber warfare adroitness in support of its invasion of Ukraine. Whether the
