A BBC investigation has revealed that hackers stole the private messages belonging to over 81,000 Facebook accounts to then sell them for 10 cents per account. The investigation began when the BBC spotted an ad on a web forum, offering to sell access to Facebook…
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Russia Denies Planning a Router Botnet Cyberattack on Ukraine
The Kremlin has denied planning a major cyberattack on Ukraine during this weekend’s Champions League final, a major soccer sporting event watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world. For context, Ukraine’s SBU security service warned of an imminent malware threat of hundreds…
Hackers Target Ukraine with Phishing Campaign During BadRabbit Attack
The head of Ukraine’s state cyber police has revealed hackers tried to access confidential data with sophisticated phishing attacks in tandem with the recent ransomware strike with BadRabbit. The recent BadRabbit ransomware attack made headlines after hitting the likes of Russia and Ukraine. The latter,…
Ukraine’s Power Grid Outage Blamed on Hackers
Over the weekend, parts of northern Kyev in Ukraine saw power blackouts and the local energy company has revealed that the outage could be the work of malicious hackers. Ukenergo claims that a substation in the region was cut-off from the main power grid, which…
Kaspersky Provides More Information on the Sandworm APT Team
The Kaspersky team has recently provided more information on the (presumably) Russian APT group named Sandworm, the hackers behind the attacks on NATO and Ukraine. According to the original post by Kaspersky researchers, the Sandworm hackers have customized and utilized a well-known BlackEnergy crimeware. BlackEnergy…
Zero-Day Used to Hack the NATO, Ukraine, and Others
A Russian group of hackers is reported to have used a zero-day vulnerability within Windows operating system to spy on such targets as NATO, the Ukrainian and Polish governments, the European Union, and other targets. The vulnerability was named the Sandworm (CVE-2014-4114) by the authors of…