Russian Aviation agency switched to paper documents due to a hacker attack

The media, citing their own sources, report that at the end of last week, Russian Aviation agency suffered from a hacker attack, after which 65 TB of data was erased and it was necessary to temporarily switch to paper workflow. The Aviatorshchina Telegram channel was the first to report the attack, which wrote that as… Continue reading Russian Aviation agency switched to paper documents due to a hacker attack

British police announced the arrest of several members of the Lapsus$ group

Recently, the hack group Lapsus$ mentioned that several of its members were going on vacation, and soon law enforcements in the UK announced the arrest of seven alleged members of Lapsus$. The hack group Lapsus$ has only recently entered the scene, but has already compromised Microsoft, Nvidia, Ubisoft and other major companies. One of the… Continue reading British police announced the arrest of several members of the Lapsus$ group

Hackers attack hackers by spreading malware on underground forums

Information security specialists have discovered new evidence that hackers often attack hackers, their own “colleagues in the shop.” The malware, which was distributed on hack forums under the guise of hacked RATs and tools for creating malware, stole data from the clipboard. Malware that steals or replaces data in the clipboard (often called clippers) is… Continue reading Hackers attack hackers by spreading malware on underground forums

Lapsus$ hack group stole the source codes of Microsoft products

The Lapsus$ hack group has released the source codes for Bing, Cortana, and other Microsoft products allegedly stolen from an internal Microsoft Azure DevOps server. Over the weekend, a screenshot appeared on the Lapsus$ Telegram channel demonstrating that hackers attacked the Microsoft Azure DevOps server and got to the sources of Bing, Cortana and various… Continue reading Lapsus$ hack group stole the source codes of Microsoft products

Anonymous claims they hacked dozens of CCTV cameras in Russia

Anonymous hacktivists claimed on Twitter that they had hacked and gained access to dozens of external and internal security cameras in Russia, located, according to the hackers, in restaurants, offices, schools and so on. The feeds from the cameras are collected on a special site called Behind Enemy Lines, where various messages are superimposed on… Continue reading Anonymous claims they hacked dozens of CCTV cameras in Russia

Most likely russian hackers defaced Ukrainian government websites

Hackers defaced several Ukrainian government websites: the attack occurred on the night of January 13-14 and affected the websites of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Defense, the State Emergency Service, the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, and so on. The Record notes that all resources have… Continue reading Most likely russian hackers defaced Ukrainian government websites

Chinese hack group Aquatic Panda exploits Log4Shell to hack educational institutions

Specialists of information security company CrowdStrike warn: the Chinese cyber-espionage hack group Aquatic Panda uses the Log4Shell vulnerabilities, with the help of which a large educational institution was compromised. Let me remind you that the CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability, also called Log4Shell and LogJam, was discovered in the popular Log4j logging library in early December. The researchers… Continue reading Chinese hack group Aquatic Panda exploits Log4Shell to hack educational institutions

Ukrainian law enforcement officers arrested members of the hacker group Phoenix

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced the arrest of five members of the international hacker group Phoenix, which specializes in remote hacking of mobile devices and collection of personal data. Law enforcement officers report that the group included five citizens of Ukraine (residents of Kyiv and Kharkiv), and all of them had a higher… Continue reading Ukrainian law enforcement officers arrested members of the hacker group Phoenix

FBI and NSA release a statement about attacks by Russian hackers

The FBI and NSA claim that a group of Russian government hackers are brute-forcing companies and organizations around the world. The NSA, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS CISA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency, the FBI and the UK National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) issued a joint statement warning that the Russian “government hack group from… Continue reading FBI and NSA release a statement about attacks by Russian hackers

Russian-speaking hackers attacked the government infrastructure of Poland

The Sejm of Poland will hold a secret meeting, at which the government will hear information about the recent attacks by Russian-speaking hackers on the government infrastructure of Poland and the Internet accounts of high-ranking officials. According to government spokesman Peter Müller, the officials who requested the meeting are planning to submit classified documents regarding… Continue reading Russian-speaking hackers attacked the government infrastructure of Poland