Cybersecurity

Phishing Campaign Targets European Officials Assisting in Refugee Operations

A phishing campaign with possible links to a state-sponsored actor is targeting European officials assisting in the effort to evacuate Ukrainian refugees, cybersecurity firm Proofpoint said in a report Wednesday. Although the company said attribution remains unclear at this…

Russian Space Agency says Hacking Satellites is an Act of War

Russia will consider any cyberattacks targeting Russian satellite infrastructure an act of war, as the country's space agency director said in a TV interview. Dmitry Rogozin, the current head of the Russian Roscosmos State Space Corporation, added that such attempts would…

Anonymous vs. Russia: Hackers Say Space Agency Breached, More Than 1,500 Websites Hit

A hacking group affiliated with Anonymous claimed that it breached the control center of Russian State Space Corporation “Roscosmos” and cut off the agency’s control over its spy satellites as part of the ongoing cyber-offensive against Russian government targets in protest…

Senate Passes Cybersecurity Act Forcing Critical Infrastructure Orgs to Report Cyberattacks, Ransom Payments

The US Senate approved new cybersecurity legislation that will force critical infrastructure organizations to report cyberattacks to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within 72 hours and ransomware payments within 24 hours…

Log4shell Exploits Now Used Mostly for DDoS Botnets, Cryptominers

The Log4Shell vulnerabilities in the widely used Log4j software are still leveraged by threat actors today to deploy various malware payloads, including recruiting devices into DDoS botnets and for planting cryptominers. According to a report by Barracuda, the past couple…

Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office

Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation today. Tuesday’s story examined how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks…

Researchers Devise Attack for Stealing Data During Homomorphic Encryption

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed what they claim is the first successful side-channel attack on an emerging security technology called homomorphic encryption, which allows operations to be performed on encrypted data…

Social Media Accounts of Pakistan Mission in Algeria Hacked: FO

The Foreign Office on Wednesday said the social media accounts of Pakistan’s embassy in Algeria have been “hacked” and the posts did not belong to the mission. “The Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts of the Embassy of Pakistan in Algeria have been hacked…

Ukraine Asks ICANN to Revoke Russian Domains and Shut Down DNS Root Servers

A Ukraine government official on Monday asked the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) to shut down DNS root servers in Russia and revoke Russian domains such as .ru, .рф, and .su. The letter to ICANN (Internet Corporation for…

Hackers Find a New Way to Deliver Devastating DDoS Attacks

Last August, Academic researchers discovered a potent new method for knocking sites offline: a fleet of misconfigured servers more than 100,000 strong that can amplify floods of junk data to once-unthinkable sizes. These attacks, in many cases, could result in an infinite…