A likely Russian threat cluster tracked as GreyVibe has been targeting Ukrainian entities with AI-generated lures and a rich set of custom malware tools. […]
The speech is the latest in a string of warnings from intelligence experts that Russia is stepping up hostile activity in a “gray zone” that falls just below the threshold of war. The post UK Cyberspying Chief Calls AI ‘an Unstoppable Force’ and Warns About Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Russian hacker group Secret Blizzard has developed its long-running Kazuar backdoor into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet designed for long-term persistence, stealth, and data collection. […]
Federal prosecutors have been conducting a preliminary investigation since mid-February 2026 into alleged cyberattacks on Signal accounts. The post Germany Suspects Russia Is Behind Signal Phishing That Targeted Top Officials appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Victims don’t need to match the cyber espionage group’s technical sophistication, experts say. But patching and some form of zero trust are now non-negotiable.
Heard of fileless malware? How about malwareless cyber espionage? Russia’s APT28 is spying on global organizations by modifying just one DNS setting in vulnerable routers.
The APT28 threat group exploited vulnerable TP-Link and MikroTik routers to conduct adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. The post US Disrupts Russian Espionage Operation Involving Hacked Routers and DNS Hijacking appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code.
The state-sponsored group’s campaign has targeted government, higher education, financial, and legal entities, as well as think tanks. The post Russian APT Star Blizzard Adopts DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit appeared first on SecurityWeek.