Russian hackers

Network Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Russian nation-state hackers have exploited a recent Microsoft email compromise to steal the emails of government agencies, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has reiterated in a new alert. The warning ordered agencies to urgently check their email systems for signs of compromise and report back by April 30 if they believe specific…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Russian-speaking ransomware gang BlackCat is leaking data stolen from a Pennsylvania-based healthcare group, including photos of breast cancer patients. On Saturday, the ransomware group posted on its dark leak site a message taunting Lehigh Valley Health Network. “We have been in your network a long time and have had time to study your business,” the…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The Australian government says it will centralize its approach to securing federal agencies by appointing a coordinator to head the new National Office for Cyber Security within the Department of Home Affairs. The appointment comes after the country down under experienced back-to-back major data breaches. Medibank, Australia’s largest private health insurer, saw Russia-based ransomware hackers…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Attackers this week locked up the business of London-based ION Cleared Derivatives, a software firm that supports derivatives trading, forcing major European banks to process trades manually and prompting a major futures exchange to delay the settlement of trades for two hours. ION Cleared Derivatives, part of ION Group which offers software designed to automate…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The sanctions, foreshadowed for weeks by the administration, would represent the first retaliatory action announced against the Kremlin for last year’s hack, familiarly known as the SolarWinds breach. In that intrusion, Russian hackers are believed to have infected widely used software with malicious code, enabling them to access the networks of at least nine agencies…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Kaspersky May Have Found How Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data

Security firm Kaspersky Lab has shared preliminary results from its investigation following media reports that Russian hackers used its software to steal sensitive NSA data from a contractor’s computer back in 2015. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that a threat group working for the Russian government stole information on how the U.S….