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U.S. authorities disrupt Russian intelligence’s botnet

In January 2024, an operation dismantled a network of hundreds of SOHO routers controlled by GRU Military Unit 26165, also known as APT 28, Sofacy Group, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and Sednit. This network facilitated various crimes, including extensive spearphishing and credential harvesting against entities of interest to the Russian government, such as U.S. and foreign governments, military, and key security and corporate sectors. This botnet was distinct from prior GRU and Russian … More ? The post U.S. authorities disrupt Russian intelligence’s botnet appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet ‘unmasked’ by Russian state media

Also: NXP China attack, Australia can’t deliver on ransom payment ban (yet), and Justin Sun’s very bad month Infosec in Brief Cybercriminals working out of Russia go to great lengths to conceal their real identities, and you won’t ever find the state trying to unmask them either – as long as they keep supplying the attacks on Axis nations. It’s the reason why we found it so amusing that of all the ways the identity of an organized cybercrime gang leader could be revealed, it was Russian state media that may have recently outed someone of note.…

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Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet ‘unmasked’ by Russian state media

Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites

Pro-Ukraine techie gets hard time A Russian IT worker accused of participating in pro-Ukraine denial of service attacks against Russian government websites has been sentenced to three years in a penal colony and ordered to pay 800,000 rubles (about $10,000). …

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Here’s a list of proxy IPs to help block KillNet’s DDoS bots

Put pro-Putin bots on the do not call list A free tool aims is helping organizations defend against KillNet distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) bots and comes as the US government issued a warning that the Russian cybercrime gang is stepping up its network flooding attacks against hospitals and health clinics.…

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Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine

Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says ‘LoL’ to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online in brief Russian hackers have proved yet again how quickly cyber attacks can be used to respond to global events with a series of DDoS attacks on German infrastructure and government websites in response to the country’s plan to send tanks to Ukraine.…

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Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine

Microsoft: (Cyber) winter is coming as DDoS attack disrupts Russian bank

Where’s the Night’s Watch when you need them? Microsoft has warned Europe to be on alert for cyber attacks from Russia this winter, just as a series of attacks hit Russian organizations – including the country’s second-largest bank.…

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Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders

Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a ‘willful campaign… to mislead the court’ A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian nationals who are alleged to have helped create the “Glupteba” botnet, sold fraudulent credit card information, and generated cryptocurrency using the network.…

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US Treasury thwarts DDoS attack from Russian Killnet group

Yet another pathetic ‘stunt’ from pro-Kremlin criminals The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet.…

Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline

How’s that boot taste? Updated Russian miscreants claimed responsibility for knocking more than a dozen US airports’ websites offline on Monday morning in what appeared to be a large-scale, distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…

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Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters

Harvested usernames, passwords used to drain victims’ coffers A Russian programmer has been sentenced to eight years behind bars in America for his part in a massive cybercriminal network that hacked into and drained victims’ bank accounts.…

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Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters