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Fake Stories in Real News Sites

Posted on By infossl
cybersecurity, disinformation, fakenews, hacking, propaganda, russia, Security technology

Fireeye is reporting that a hacking group called Ghostwriter broke into the content management systems of Eastern European news sites to plant fake stories. From a Wired story: The propagandists have created and disseminated disinformation since at least March 2017, with a focus on undermining NATO and the US troops in Poland and the Baltics; … Read More “Fake Stories in Real News Sites” »

Business Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring

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cybercrime, email, hacking, malware, phishing, russia, Security technology

A criminal group called Cosmic Lynx seems to be based in Russia: Dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the group has carried out more than 200 BEC campaigns since July 2019, according to researchers from the email security firm Agari, particularly targeting senior executives at large organizations and corporations in 46 countries. Cosmic Lynx specializes in topical, tailored … Read More “Business Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring” »

Story of Gus Weiss

Posted on By infossl
deception, disinformation, historyofsecurity, russia, sabotage, Security technology, tradecraft

This is a long and fascinating article about Gus Weiss, who masterminded a long campaign to feed technical disinformation to the Soviet Union, which may or may not have caused a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the 1980s, if in fact there even was a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the … Read More “Story of Gus Weiss” »

Russia Is Trying to Tap Transatlantic Cables

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eavesdropping, ireland, russia, Security technology

The Times of London is reporting that Russian agents are in Ireland probing transatlantic communications cables. Ireland is the landing point for undersea cables which carry internet traffic between America, Britain and Europe. The cables enable millions of people to communicate and allow financial transactions to take place seamlessly. Garda and military sources believe the … Read More “Russia Is Trying to Tap Transatlantic Cables” »

New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS

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attribution, certificates, kaspersky, malware, randomnumbers, russia, Security technology, tls

Kaspersky has a detailed blog post about a new piece of sophisticated malware that it’s calling Reductor. The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting the computer with hacked TLS engine substituted on the fly, “marking” infected TLS handshakes by compromising the underlining random-number generator, and adding new digital certificates. The result is … Read More “New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS” »

New Research into Russian Malware

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cyberespionage, malware, operationalsecurity, russia, Security technology

There’s some interesting new research about Russian APT malware: The Russian government has fostered competition among the three agencies, which operate independently from one another, and compete for funds. This, in turn, has resulted in each group developing and hoarding its tools, rather than sharing toolkits with their counterparts, a common sight among Chinese and … Read More “New Research into Russian Malware” »

Russians Hack FBI Comms System

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fbi, hacking, russia, Security technology, tracking, trafficanalysis

Yahoo News reported that the Russians have successfully targeted an FBI communications system: American officials discovered that the Russians had dramatically improved their ability to decrypt certain types of secure communications and had successfully tracked devices used by elite FBI surveillance teams. Officials also feared that the Russians may have devised other ways to monitor … Read More “Russians Hack FBI Comms System” »

Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects

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cyberattack, deanonymization, hacking, russia, Security technology

More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia: Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009 on a multitude of projects since 2009 for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum. Projects include: Nautilus — a project for collecting data about social media users (such … Read More “Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects” »