Russian and Belarusian hackers attack Ukraine, Google recently announced. According to the search engine giant, well-known hacking groups involved in the attack. Hackers attack Ukraine in phishing campaigns Among the hackers involved in the attacks, Google mentioned…
Hackers put the COVID-19 vaccine integrity at risk
December 4, 2020
The COVID-19 vaccine storage and shipment became the new target of hackers, according to the IBM researchers. This happens just after the UK became the first country to authorise the Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine and the first people will take it next week.
COVID-19…
Google under attack: Hackers targeted Chrome and Drive
November 3, 2020
Hackers put Google under attack in the last few days. Thus, they decided to send malicious links to hundreds of thousands of users. So, scammers used one of the Drive features to determine users click on malicious links.
Also, they exploited a zero-day vulnerability, which…
New custom malware attack from the Russian hackers
September 30, 2020
Malware is the tool that a new ransomware group – OldGremlin, uses in its ransomware attacks. They target mainly large corporate networks and use self-made backdoors and file-encrypting malware.
Malware from Russia, against Russian companies? Strangely, the…
Microsoft: US election became the target for Russian hackers
September 10, 2020
According to Microsoft, Russian hackers target the upcoming US election. The company mentioned that three groups of hackers from Russia, China and Iran launched cyberattacks. They have been “targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential…
Romanian hackers infected 400,000 victims
December 12, 2019
Two Romanian hackers infected 400,000 victims with malware and have been sentenced to jailtime. The malware stole credentials and financial information. So, it scammed victims out of four million dollars.
Bogdan Nicolescu, 37, and Radu Miclaus, 37, were sentenced to 20…
Vietnamese hackers compromised BMW and Hyundai
December 9, 2019
A Vietnamese group supported by the authorities compromised BMW and Hyundai. So, the giants’ networks were under cyber-attacks for months, recently.
“Ocean Lotus” (code name APT32) has been operational for a few years. In the spring, it infiltrated the network of…
Russian hackers focus on foreign banks
December 3, 2019
Two groups of dangerous Russian hackers focus on foreign banks now. They stopped attacking Russian banks, as the damage caused on credit institutions fell by 14 times.
Group-IB experts mentioned that: “Until 2018, Russian-speaking groups often attacked banks in Russia…
Hackers attack Germany, Italy and US
November 15, 2019
Security researchers tracked activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers. So, the hackers target a few companies and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States. And they try to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware.
The…
Facebook decided to pay hackers
October 17, 2019
Facebook decided to pay hackers in the expansion of its bug bounty program. This is a way to enhance the security of third-party apps and websites that integrate with its platform, as Facebook users’ data that had been misused was exposed mainly as the result of a…