[BREAKING] NSA, Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Brute Force Global Cyber Campaign

NSA and its US and British partners (the UK's NCSC and the US FBI and CISA) late this morning released an advisory detailing a Russian campaign ("almost certainly ongoing") to brute-force ...

February 22, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

The First Documented Russian Hack in...1981?

I'm reading "Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare" by Thomas Rid and wanted to share this story with you which was new to me! It's warmly ...

July 2, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Elections In Russia Mean 16 More Years Of Job Security For InfoSec Pros

Russian voters have overwhelmingly backed a ploy by President Vladimir Putin to rule until 2036 in a referendum.

November 27, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Google Sent 12K Nation-State Phishing Warnings In Three Months

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) delivered thousands of alerts of government-backed attempts to spearphish gmail users over just a three-month period earlier this year, they reported.

September 26, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Russian Secret Weapon Against U.S. 2020 Election Revealed In New Cyberwarfare Report

You may have sensed this, but you need to confront the fact the Planet Earth is an anarchy of nations. The UN is ineffective and thoroughly corrupt. A few good things have come out of it, ...

September 16, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Exclusive: Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil

Yahoo came out with some very interesting news: "On Dec. 29, 2016, the Obama administration announced that it was giving nearly three dozen Russian diplomats just 72 hours to leave the ...

March 21, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Another Major Hack Of Singapore Government By Russian Cyber Criminals

SINGAPORE Straits Times reported that e-mail log-in information of employees in several government agencies and educational institutions, as well as details of more than 19,000 ...

November 19, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Now here is something new: Russian Banks Targeted by Sophisticated Phishing Emails

This does not happen too often, and these attackers must be outside of Russia. If hackers inside Russia attack their own country, the FSB is on their doorstep with a SWAT team in no time.

November 18, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Russian APT Comes Back To Life With New Us Spear-Phishing Campaign

A Russian state-sponsored cyber-espionage group has come back to life after a one-year period of inactivity with a relative large spear-phishing campaign that has targeted both the US ...

October 24, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

That Saudi oil and gas plant that got hacked. You'll never guess who could... OK, it's Russia

FireEye thinks it found the evil genius behind a nasty cyber-infection at a Saudi Oil refinery.

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