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Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes

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Nov

2023

The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google’s Mandiant, which described the hack as a “multi-event cyber attack” leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS). “The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land (LotL) […]

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Iran-Linked Imperial Kitten Cyber Group Targeting Middle East’s Tech Sectors

10

Nov

2023

A group with links to Iran targeted transportation, logistics, and technology sectors in the Middle East, including Israel, in October 2023 amid a surge in Iranian cyber activity since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks have been attributed by CrowdStrike to a threat actor it tracks under the name Imperial Kitten, and which […]

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New Malvertising Campaign Uses Fake Windows News Portal to Distribute Malicious Installers

09

Nov

2023

A new malvertising campaign has been found to employ fake sites that masquerade as legitimate Windows news portal to propagate a malicious installer for a popular system profiling tool called CPU-Z. “This incident is a part of a larger malvertising campaign that targets other utilities like Notepad++, Citrix, and VNC Viewer as seen in its […]

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Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes

Iran-Linked Imperial Kitten Cyber Group Targeting Middle East’s Tech Sectors

New Malvertising Campaign Uses Fake Windows News Portal to Distribute Malicious Installers

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