Enlarge (credit: gwengoat | Getty Images) For years, a small and disparate Ukrainian team including IT experts, intelligence officers and a criminal prosecutor has kept a wary eye on a group of hackers nicknamed Armageddon. The hackers were based in Crimea, shielded by the Russian government, which had seized the region in 2014, and out […]
Enlarge (credit: Wired | Getty Images) For years, Russia’s cybercrime groups have acted with relative impunity. The Kremlin and local law enforcement have largely turned a blind eye to disruptive ransomware attacks as long as they didn’t target Russian companies. Despite direct pressure on Vladimir Putin to tackle ransomware groups, they’re still intimately tied to […]
Enlarge (credit: Elena Lacey | Getty Images) On Thursday, hackers defaced a Russian Space Research Institute website and leaked files that they allege are stolen from Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Their message? “Leave Ukraine alone else Anonymous will f*ck you up even more.” Meanwhile a DDoS attack pummeled Russia’s .ru “top level domain,” with […]
Enlarge / “People really still use ‘1234567’ as a password? Really?” (credit: Kremlin official photo) The discovery of Russia’s devastating SolarWinds spy campaign put the spotlight on the sophisticated supply chain hijacking techniques of Moscow’s foreign intelligence hackers. But it’s now apparent that, throughout that SolarWinds spying and its fallout, another group of Kremlin hackers […]
Expand / / The assault struck on multiple US agencies–along with a complete evaluation of the damage could still be weeks away. Bloomberg Last week, many leading United States government agencies–such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, and State–discovered their systems were broken up by Russian hackers at an months-long espionage performance . […]
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Expand / / SONY DSC (charge: Boris SV | Getty Images) A warning which anonymous hackers broke in a service of the US {} and stole its own information is upsetting enough. Nonetheless, it becomes even more upsetting when those unknown bugs are recognized –and seem likely to become a part of a infamous group […]