Cybercrime, Cyberwar, Cybersecurity

Russian investors seek assistance in darknet to recover blocked crypto assets

January 30, 2023

Service offers to release Russian investors’ assets blocked on international crypto exchanges are springing up in the darknet, reports Russian business daily Kommersant. Among the methods used are the transfer of the funds to an unblocked account, the renewal of accounts submitting fake KYC information, etc. The cost of such services may vary between 35% and …

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Why Russia’s cyber-war in Ukraine has been intense, but not always effective

December 12, 2022

Shaping the battlefield. Darius, king of Persia, did it in 331bc, with caltrops strewn where he thought his enemy Alexander the Great would advance. The Allies did it in 1944, with dummy aircraft and landing craft intended to fool Germany’s high command into thinking their invasion of France would be in the Pas de Calais, …

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How Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary fighters steal cryptocurrency through Ukrainian charity sites — and use it to fund the war

November 22, 2022

The paramilitary group Rusich is one of multiple Russian far-right and neo-Nazi organizations that have fought in the war in Ukraine. Because it’s not an official part of the Russian Armed Forces, Rusich has had to find alternative ways of funding its members’ military equipment and medical needs — and has found the perfect solution in cryptocurrency.  Meduza special correspondent …

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How the war on Ukraine is reshaping Russia’s digital underground

November 22, 2022

At the beginning of the February invasion of Ukraine, there was widespread fear that cybercrime would be weaponized against Western organizations, especially given earlier examples of the Russian security services tolerating cybercriminals targeting the West (or even trying to recruit them for service). The US-Russian dialogue on cybercrime, which reportedly led to the arrest of …

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Ukrainian hacker group Hdr0: “We aim to destroy Russian supply lines so that Russians can feel the war for themselves”

November 2, 2022

In mid-September, the Ukrainian hacker group Hdr0 attacked the website of Mosoblenergo, a Russian state energy service provider. The hackers put on the home page a picture of Oleksiy Danilov, a high-ranking Ukrainian defense official, walking on the Red Square while the Kremlin was on fire. The hackers also obtained the database of company employees.  …

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Russian anti-Putin hackers claim massive attack on government contractors computers

October 29, 2022

The National Republican Army (NRA) of Russia is seeking the overthrow of Vladimir Putin’s regime, including via the use of violent means. On Oct. 17, in perhaps one of the largest IT-security breaches in Russian history, NRA-affiliates told Kyiv Post that they had hacked several major Russian technology firms that are currently providing services critical to the …

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Russian hackers behind SolarWinds are now hiding malware in Google Drive

July 20, 2022

The Russia-linked hacking group behind the infamous SolarWinds espionage campaign is now using Google Drive to stealthily deliver malware to its latest victims. That’s according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team, who said on Tuesday that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) hacking unit — tracked as “Cloaked Ursa” by Unit 42 but more commonly known as …

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Report: Lessons learned from cyber operations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

July 12, 2022

What key lessons can we draw from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine about the role of cyber operations in military conflict? How do Russian cyber operations differ in wartime compared to peacetime activity? And what cyber activity can we expect in the months ahead?  On 30 May, the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI) …

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Why Russia’s giant cyber attack on Ukraine on Feb. 24 had relatively little impact

June 20, 2022

The Kremlin-backed cyberattack against satellite communications provider Viasat, which happened on Feb. 24 an hour before Russia invaded Ukraine, was “one of the biggest cyber events that we have seen, perhaps ever, and certainly in warfare,” according to Dmitri Alperovitch, a co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike and chair of security-centric think tank Silverado Policy …

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How Russia’s war on Ukraine and Kyiv’s call for help sparked off the first ever global cyber guerrilla

June 3, 2022

Weeks before tanks and soldiers marched on the cities of Ukraine, Russia carried out a series of successful cyberattacks against Ukraine, hitting critical infrastructure and financial institutions around the country with at least six unique strains of destructive wiper malware. Recent reporting confirms Russia’s GRU also carried out a massive cyberattack against Viasat, knocking its customers’ KA-SAT satellite …

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How Ukrainian “Inglorious Basterds” are combating Russia on the cyber front

May 20, 2022

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many cybersecurity experts and activists have joined the Ukrainian cyber front. They carry out DDoS attacks on Russian resources, defacing Russian sites, taking their popular services offline, and even more drastic operations.  One of the coordinators of such IT armies is Kharkiv cybersecurity specialist Mykyta Knysh. Having worked …

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