State-sponsored Russian hackers are targeting German political parties with fake dinner invites to deploy WINELOADER backdoors, establish persistence, and exfiltrate data.
Microsoft is now saying that the Russian hackers accessed "some" source code. And while customer-facing systems were not breached, the hackers accessed some confidential emails to customers.
The HPE security breach is not known to be related to the recent announcement from Microsoft that Russian hackers had penetrated the inboxes of its senior leadership. It instead appears to have a connection to a May 2023 attack that the company had previously disclosed.
Microsoft has named "Midnight Blizzard," an established team of Russian state sponsored hackers also referred to as NOBELIUM and Cozy Bear, as the culprit behind a recent security breach that compromised high-level corporate email accounts.
Russian hackers had access to Ukraine's biggest telecoms provider for most of 2023, and likely had "full access" for at least the months of November and December.
Russian hackers have reportedly accessed surveillance cameras in apartment buildings and parking facilities, and are most interested in those that are near critical infrastructure or air defense systems and can have their viewing angles changed remotely.
Russian hackers have claimed responsibility for recent DDoS attacks against NATO that disrupted a number of its operations including earthquake relief efforts for the Turkish-Syrian earthquake.
A recent Treasury Department statement accused sanctioned members of the ransomware gang of working with the Russian Intelligence Services and aligning with government objectives in its 2020 activities.
Russian hackers targeted five US nuclear scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Brookhaven, and Argonne nuclear labs as Vladimir Putin issued nuclear threats.
Russian hackers stole 50 million passwords from popular online services such as PayPal, Amazon, Roblox, Steam and crypto wallets by deploying infostealer malware on users’ devices.
