Specialists from SentinelLabs identified a new cyber threat activity that has been recently targeting Russian organizations. They assessed that the Chinese APT group is behind these attacks as also it was reported by Ukraine CERT (CERT-UA). Threat actors have used phishing emails to deliver Office documents which infected its victims with Bisonal, the most commonly… Continue reading Chinese APTs Increasingly Target Russian Organizations
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Russian Hackers Use Follina Vulnerability to Attack Users in Ukraine
The Ukraine Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) said Russian hackers are exploiting the Follina vulnerability in new phishing campaigns to install CredoMap malware and Cobalt Strike beacons. According to experts, the APT28 hacker group (Strontium, Fancy Bear and Sofacy) sends out emails with a malicious document called “Nuclear Terrorism Is a Real Threat.rtf”. The hackers… Continue reading Russian Hackers Use Follina Vulnerability to Attack Users in Ukraine
Ukraine Was Hit by DDoS Attacks from Hacked WordPress Sites
Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) said that Ukraine was hit by large-scale DDoS attacks. CERT-UA has published a report on ongoing DDoS attacks on Ukrainian websites and a government web portal. Unknown attackers compromise WordPress sites and inject malicious JavaScript code into the HTML structure. The script is base64 encoded to avoid detection like… Continue reading Ukraine Was Hit by DDoS Attacks from Hacked WordPress Sites