Security researchers at Mandiant are documenting the discovery of a new hacking group focused on cyberespionage targeting employees responsible for corporate development, large corporate transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.
Germany’s financial regulator BaFin warned Tuesday of the “very big” risk of cyberattacks targeting the financial sector, a threat it said had become “more likely” since Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Russian cyberespionage group APT29 has been observed using new malware and techniques in phishing campaigns targeting diplomatic organizations in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, Mandiant reports.
Russia’s relentless digital assaults on Ukraine may have caused less damage than many anticipated. But most of its hacking is focused on a different goal that gets less attention but has chilling potential consequences: data collection.
A handful of hacker groups aligned with the Russian government have carried out hundreds of cyberattacks against Ukraine since Moscow invaded, US tech giant Microsoft said in a report Wednesday.
It added that in “hybrid” warfare tactics, Russia often matches cyberattacks with military assaults on the battlefield.
A China-linked state-sponsored cyberespionage group has started targeting the Russian military in recent attacks, which aligns with China’s interests in the Russia-Ukraine war, Secureworks reports.
We are likely to see Russian state sponsored attacks escalate as the West continues to increase sanctions and support Ukraine
German wind turbine giant Deutsche Windtechnik has issued a notification to warn that some of its IT systems were impacted in a targeted professional cyberattack earlier this month.
Source Defense, a provider of web application client-side protection, says it pocketed $27 million in Series B funding, bringing the total investment raised by the company to $47 million.
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