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Russia Expected to Increase Critical Infrastructure Attacks

| | Critical Infrastructure, cyberattacks, Espionage, Russia, Ukraine
Russia’s war strategy increasingly involves cybersecurity, with the country expected to ramp up attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine and countries that are members of NATO, according to Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service ...
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OPSEC FAIL: US Military Email Going to Mali — via Typo

OPSEC FAIL: US Military Email Going to Mali — via Typo

| | defense department, Department of Defense, DoD, E-mail, email, Johannes Zuurbier, Mali, military, Military Communications, mxrecords, pentagon, Russia, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. military, United States Department of Defense, US DOD, US Military
MX Mixup: Russian-allied government can intercept “highly sensitive information”—because there’s no “I” in .ML ...
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Communications satellite

‘Wagner Mercenary’ Hackers Destroy Russian Satellite Comms

| | Dozor-Teleport, false flag, Russia, Russia-Ukraine, russia-ukraine conflict, Russia's War on Ukraine, Satellite Attacks, Satellite Communications, Satellite Hacking, Satellites, SB Blogwatch, Ukraine, ukraine conflict, Ukraine Cyber War, Ukraine cyberattack, Ukraine-Russia War
Dozor-Teleport hack, vandalism and data breach. But is it a Ukrainian false flag op? ...
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Vladimir Putin

Apple Fixes 0-Days — Russia Says US Used for Spying

| | Apple, CVE-2023-32434, CVE-2023-32439, FSB, imessage, ios, kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Security, nsa, Russia, Russian FSB, SB Blogwatch, TriangleDB, triangulation
Vulns unpatched for FOUR years: ‘Triangulation’ spyware said to use backdoor Apple gave to NSA ...
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cosmicenergy Akamai malware

COSMICENERGY Malware May be Artifact of Russian Emergency Response Exercises

| | COSMICENERGY, Malware, Mandiat, Russia, Threat Intelligence
Malware intended to disrupt electric power by remote terminal units (RTUs) and other IEC 104 devices and may be related to Russian emergency response exercises. The new operational technology (OT)/industrial control system ...
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Eugene Kaspersky—is he a useful idiot?

Russia Says NSA Hacked iOS With Apple’s Help — we Triangulate Kaspersky’s Research

| | Apple, back door, backdoor, FSB, imessage, ios, iPhone, kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Security, nsa, Russia, Russian FSB, SB Blogwatch, spyware, triangulation, Zero Click Attack, Zero-Click Exploit
Tit-For-Tat Triangulation Trojan Talk: Backdoor inserted at U.S. behest, alleges FSB ...
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COSMICENERGY: ‘Russian’ Threat to Power Grids ICS/OT

COSMICENERGY: ‘Russian’ Threat to Power Grids ICS/OT

| | COSMICENERGY, electric grid, electrical grid, Electrical grids, energy grid, grid cyber attack, ICS, IEC 60870-5-104, IEC-104, INCONTROLLER, Industroyer, Industroyer2, Malware, OT, power grid, Power-Grid Security, Red Team, Red team exercises, red team operations, red team testing, Red Teaming, Red Teams, red-team-tools, redteam, Russia, Russia Exodus, Russia power grid, Russia-Ukraine, russia-ukraine conflict, Russia's War on Ukraine, russian, Russian Cyber War, SB Blogwatch, Solar Polygon, triton, TRITON ICS malware, Triton malware
Shouty name—dangerous game. Red-team tool ripe for misuse ...
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Snake

Turla’s Snake May be Down, But its Legacy Lives On

| | cybercrime, Malware, Russia, Snake, Turla, Uroboros
The Department of Justice’s recent revelation that it dismantled the Turla cybercriminal network was met with surprise—not that the authorities had taken it down and neutralized the Snake malware, but that Snake ...
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Exposed Web Panel Reveals Gamaredon Group's Automated Spear Phishing Campaigns

Exposed Web Panel Reveals Gamaredon Group’s Automated Spear Phishing Campaigns

| | Cybercriminal, intelligence research, Malware, nation-state, Russia, Threat Actor APT, Threats and Vulnerabilities, Ukraine
Executive Summary On February 09, 2023, EclecticIQ analysts identified a spear phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian government entities like the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SZRU) and Security Service of Ukraine (SSU). Analysts ...
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‘But His Emails!’ — Ukrainian Hackers Hack Hillary Hacker

‘But His Emails!’ — Ukrainian Hackers Hack Hillary Hacker

| | APT28, DCLeaks, Democratic National Committee, democrats, DNC, DNC hack, Fancy Bear, FBI, GRU, hillary clinton, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev, Strontium, Ukraine
Beware Fancy Bears Bearing Gifts: Confirms DCLeaks caper was by APT28. Also that APT28 is Russian military unit ...
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