A joint advisory from intelligence and cybersecurity agencies in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and multiple European countries has detailed an ongoing Russian state-sponsored campaign targeting Western logistics organizations and technology companies, especially those supporting aid to Ukraine. The campaign, orchestrated by the group known as APT28 or Fancy Bear, has relied heavily…
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Russia-aligned threat groups dupe Ukrainian targets via Signal
Russian state threat groups have compromised Signal accounts used by Ukrainian military and government personnel to eavesdrop on real-time communications, Google Threat Intelligence Group said in a report released Wednesday. “This is a persistent, ongoing campaign being carried out by multiple different Russia-aligned threat actors,” Dan Black, principal analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, said…
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Fancy Bear spotted using real Kazak government documents in spearpishing campaign
A hacking group linked to Russian intelligence has been observed leveraging seemingly legitimate documents from the Kazakhstan government as phishing lures to infect and spy on government officials in Central Asia, according to researchers at Sekoia. The files, laced with malware, include draft versions of diplomatic statements, correspondence letters, internal administrative notes and other documents…