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On June 29, it became known that Russian hackers Midnight Blizzard had hacked into email correspondence between Microsoft Corp. and dozens of Texas government agencies. Bloomberg reports. The attackers gained access to the mail through a Microsoft hack disclosed in January, during which they stole emails from some of the company’s executives. Microsoft is alerting […]
In Britain, an unknown cyberattack leaked information about members of the United Kingdom’s armed forces. This was reported by The Guardian. According to government officials, more than 270,000 pieces of information about the United Kingdom’s military, including names, bank details, and residential addresses of current and former military personnel, fell into the hands of the […]
Hackers from the Ukrainian Hacker Group have attacked the Russian hosting provider and domain registrar reg.ru, which holds a third of the Russian hosting market. Now, Ukrainian cyberactivists are holding the data of some of the clients, whose data was confirmed by almost 4 million Russian media outlets. Ukrainian hackers also published a sample of […]
According to the agency, as a result of the “failure,” transport card holders in the Russian capital and Kazan could not pay for travel tickets, top up their cards or pay for parking. Ukrainian hackers have attacked a number of Russian government and local portals, including the Troika fare payment system, which is one of […]
On the night of March 7, the domain name registrar Network Solutions blocked the domain ukr.net, the largest and oldest news aggregator in Ukraine and a free email service, without any warning. According to UkrNet, from 01:35 to 17 hours on March 7, Kyiv time, the UKR.NET news feed and @UKR.NET email were unavailable. According […]
Do you need a hacker? To do this, you no longer need to spend hours on the dark web, but just go to the market. A group of Spanish entrepreneurs launched Zerod, the world’s first hacker marketplace for business. The service offers businesses of all sizes a way to find and hire security testing services […]
Hackers from the Head Mare group got into the servers of the Russian military company NGO High Precision Systems and Technologies, part of the Kalashnikov concern, and posted a lot of documentation online. In particular, it includes descriptions of two types of missiles. Data on the responsible personnel and their activities, floor plans, and much […]
The US government says it has destroyed a botnet used by Russia’s GRU military intelligence unit to conduct phishing expeditions, espionage, credential collection, and data theft against US and foreign governments and other strategic targets, The Register reports. The most recent court-ordered seizure took place in January and included the neutralization of “more than a […]
Microsoft has begun warning organizations that they have been targeted by the same Russian-sponsored hacker group that hacked into its executives’ emails in late 2023. The group, known as Midnight Blizzard or Cozy Bear, was identified by Microsoft’s threat team as an entity that has attacked other organizations. This is stated in a statement by […]
Attacking more, stealing less – this is the trend of crypto hackers from North Korea in this year’s Chainalysis report. In 2023, hackers linked to the DPRK hacked a total of 20 crypto platforms, a record level of activity over the past 7 years. Meanwhile, the total amount of stolen funds amounted to more than […]