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North Korean hackers allegedly pick on Russian targets for a change

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The reputed North Korean APT actor known as Lazarus Group (aka Hidden Cobra) typically focuses its hacking efforts on South Korea, Japan and the U.S., but one of its suspected campaigns from last January surprisingly appears to have targeted Russian businesses with its signature Lazarus backdoor malware. Taking place from Jan. 26-31, the phishing campaign…
Network Security, Security News

Russian cyberattackers are in and gone in less than 20 minutes

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Russian threat actors are almost eight-times faster at taking advantage of a compromised system compared to other nation-state actors, a tribute to their operational tradecraft, according to Crowdstrike’s 2019 Global Threat report. An analysis of what Crowdstrike calls “breakout time” shows the Russians are quicker, by a factor of eight, at moving laterally through a…
Government/Defense, Security News

Search warrants in Russian hackers case reveal interaction between Stone, WikiLeaks

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Search warrants executed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian hackers have unearthed interactions between recently indicted Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone and WikiLeaks, which leaked emails stolen from the DemocraticNational Committee (DNC) and other Democratic-related organizations and operatives, according to a Friday court filing. Mueller told the court that Stone’s case is related…
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Mueller Russian probe docs manipulated, leaked via Twitter

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Non-public information gathered by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in the investigation of Russian company Concord Management and Consulting and shared during discovery, was manipulated and made accessible by a pro-Russian Twitter account in an effort to discredit Mueller’s Russian probe, Justice Department court documents revealed Wednesday. The filing asked the court not to grant…
Cybercrime, Malware, Phishing, Ransomware, Security News

Phishing campaign throws Shade ransomware at Russians

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Attackers this month have revived an email phishing operation that targets Russian speakers with Shade ransomware served via malicious JavaScript attachments. The scam first emerged in a campaign that began in mid-October of last year, before dying down over the holiday period. But January ushered in a more intense second phase that doubled the previous…
Cybercrime, Finance, Malware, Phishing, Security News

Russians targeted in Redaman banking malware operation

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An ongoing email phishing campaign designed to spread Redaman banking malware aggressively targeted Russian-speakers, especially those with .ru addresses, over the last four months of 2018. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 division reported this week in a company blog post that from September through December, its threat intelligence service detected 3,845 email sessions…
APTs/cyberespionage, Government/Defense, Security News

Mueller may believe Manafort shared polling data with Russian during campaign

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Paul Manafort shared polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik –a businessman linked to the Russian intelligence unit GRU, which hacked the DNC–  at least that’s what Special Counsel Robert Mueller apparently thinks, a poorly redacted court filing by the former Trump campaign manager’s attorneys showed. Details that Manafort met with Kilimnik in Madrid while a member…
Security News

Russian social media influence ongoing, targeted African-Americans, reports say

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Russia continues “active and ongoing interference operations” on multiple social media platforms and its influence campaign that marred the 2016 election was both broader and more targeted than previously known – aiming to suppress Democratic voters, particularly African-Americans, according to a report generated for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The “most prolific” efforts by the Internet…
Cybercrime, Phishing, Security News

Cybercriminal phishing campaign spoofs Russian critical infrastructure domains

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A cybercriminal phishing operation designed to infect victims with a malicious backdoor was recently discovered using command-and-control domains that intentionally spoofed the real-life domains of various Russian critical infrastructure firms. The campaign’s focus on critical infrastructure at first gave it the appearance of an APT-sponsored cyberespionage operation, but upon closer inspection, the motivation appears to…
APTs/cyberespionage, Government/Defense, Security News

Mueller sentencing memos on Cohen, Manafort point to coordination with Russian operatives during campaign

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A trio of sentencing memos filed Friday in cases against President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort offer the strongest indication yet of repeated contact or coordination between members of the Trump campaign and Russian operatives at a time when Russia was attempting to interfere in and exert influence…
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