Russia Tops Nation-State Attacks
Russia is the source of the mammoth nation-state cyberattacks Microsoft has observed in the past year (58%), followed by North Korea (23%), Iran (11%), China (8%), and South Korea, Vietnam,…
ChamelGang APT hits Russia
A new APT group dubbed Chamelgang has emerged targeting the fuel and energy complex and aviation industry in Russia, exploiting known vulnerabilities like Microsoft Exchange Server’s ProxyShell and leveraging both…
RuNet’s Biggest DDoS Problem
A new distributed DDoS botnet that kept hammering Russian internet giant Yandex for the past month, the attack peaking at the unprecedented rate of 21.8 million requests per second. The…
KONNI RAT ! Russian Campaign
A new and ongoing malware campaign targetting Russia. The payload dropped by threat actors in this attack is the Konni RAT being used by the North Korean Black Hat group…
WebDav-O targets Russsia
Chinese state-sponsored threat groups been behind a series of targeted attacks on the Russian federal executive authority. A virus known as "Webdav-O" that was discovered in the intrusions, with the…
Chinese Fingerprint Russia
An APT that Russia found inside government systems was too crude to have been the work of a Western nation, believed the malware came from a Chinese entity. Russian Federal…
XSS Bans Raas
A popular Russian-language criminal forum has claimed it will ban the sale of ransomware tools, after colonial pipeline attack. Ransomware was attracting too much “hype” and attention from outsiders, but…
Stantinko Bots Targets Russia
An adware and coin-miner botnet targeting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. the trojan masquerades as HTTPd, a commonly used program on Linux servers, and is a new version of the…