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Researchers infiltrated a large-scale tech support scam operation that impersonates Microsoft. The operation relies on a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian organization. It also abuses thousands of Cloudflare links to route victims to scam content. The article snippet gives no victim counts, losses or technical i…
SentinelOne reports observing APT29 (Midnight Blizzard / Cozy Bear, Russia's SVR) running the CaptiveCrunch campaign, disclosed by Microsoft in July 2026, across multiple customer environments in three regions. The operation abuses captive-portal behaviour and forged name resolution to push fake browser updater downloads to roaming Window…
Toy Ghouls (aka Bearlyfy, Laboo.boo, Feral Wolf), a financially motivated group targeting Russian organizations since 2025, was observed in early July 2026 using a custom backdoor for the first time. Kaspersky GERT identified two versions, mqtt-bird-agent 0.1.0 (C2 over the public HiveMQ MQTT broker) and matrix-bird-agent 0.1.0 (C2 over a…
Kaspersky GERT reports that the NightEagle APT (also tracked as APT-Q-95), active since at least 2023 and previously focused on Asia, is now attacking businesses in Russia. The attackers usually gain access through compromised valid credentials on corporate VPNs, connecting from Russian IPs tied to Cloudflare WARP tunnels and from Europea…
A breach of the Mindbox marketing automation platform in August 2024 exposed data belonging to Burger King Russia customers. News of the incident broke in October 2024, and the dataset was added to Have I Been Pwned on 21 Sep 2026. It contains 3.2M unique email addresses along with names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and approxi…
Since mid-2025 the Kremlin has sharply escalated restrictions on digital communications, according to Insikt Group (Recorded Future). Measures include VPN blocking, state-managed regional internet shutdowns, throttling of Telegram and WhatsApp, promotion of the state-owned Max messenger, and expanded surveillance of Russian and foreign en…
A joint advisory (AA26-194a) from NSA, CISA, FBI, DC3 and 15 allied agencies warns that Russian FSB Center 16 cyber actors continue to opportunistically compromise poorly configured and vulnerable networking devices worldwide, primarily routers. The advisory builds on the FBI's August 2025 PSA on the decade-plus campaign and adds TTPs. Go…
F5 Labs published its 2026 cybersecurity predictions and scored its 2025 forecasts at 6.5/8, by its own assessment. The 2025 review cites AI-powered botnets, attacks on AI model APIs, AI side-channel attacks on cryptography, APT use of hacktivist personas, and expanded Roskomnadzor powers to isolate or reroute Russian internet traffic fro…
Following reported Ukrainian drone strikes on three Yandex facilities in Russia between October 7 and 11, claims spread that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. Cloudflare analyzed Radar and Bot Management data for the two Yandex ASNs, AS13238 (search) and AS200350 (Yandex.Cloud). It found no evidence that…
ESET documented the evolution of MATCHBOIL, a custom C downloader used by the Russia-aligned cyberespionage group UAC-0099. Samples span April 2024 to April 2026, although CERT-UA first documented the malware in August 2025. Each iteration became more sophisticated, with new obfuscation, sandbox checks and persistence methods. All victims…
AI pen-testing startup Terra Security reports a sharp rise in security fixes later found to be bypassed or incomplete. The share of GitHub security fixes needing a follow-up advisory for a failed patch within 90 days held near 0.2% from 2019 to 2025 but jumped to 2.3% in 2026. Terra links the trend to the 2026 explosion in AI-driven vulne…
Infoblox links the long-running Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least 2017, to the Russian-language affiliate program Hotejka, assessed with high confidence to be a rebrand of the traffic monetization operation ROI777. Help TDS supplies PHP templates and a malicious WordPress plugin that affiliates install on comprom…
A joint advisory (AA25-343A) from FBI, CISA, NSA and some 18 other US, European, Five Eyes and Czech agencies warns that pro-Russia hacktivist groups are conducting opportunistic, low-sophistication attacks on critical infrastructure OT. The groups named are Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), Z-Pentest, NoName057(16) and Sector16. They e…
F5 Labs analyzed exploitation of CVE-2026-24423, a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail (CWE-306). CISA added it to the KEV catalog on February 2, 2026 and notes it has been used in ransomware campaigns. Despite public write-ups, F5 sensors saw only one IP, 193.24.123.58 (ASN 200593, Russian ISP …
A reader comment (by ResearcherZero) on a Schneier on Security squid-blogging post alleges that an agent working for the Russian GRU carried out repeated "Havana Syndrome"-style attacks with an energy-emitting device against civilians in Perth, Western Australia, from the second half of the 1980s until 1992. The commenter claims the attac…
On October 8, the U.K. imposed economic sanctions on Cryptomus (formerly Certa Payments and Xeltox Enterprises, rebranded as Heleket) for processing payments that benefit the Russian government and its financial institutions. The sanctions also cover the virtual payment platforms VexPay, TokenSpot and Tsunami Payments. Experts describe Cr…
A Russian influence operation is reportedly targeting Latin America, with schools in Peru and Ecuador among the targets. According to Dark Reading, the operation used AI to support its activity. Its tactics included spoofed emails, fake government documents, and the creation of a local organization to give the campaign a domestic presence…
A 28-year-old Russian man, identified by German media only as "Vladimir K", has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of being a key member of the Qilin ransomware gang. He was first detained in Japan in May while on holiday and was extradited to Germany earlier this month. German investigators are examining possible links between him and…
GreyNoise reports that a single malicious cyber actor, tracked since 7 May 2026, is a suspected Chinese speaker working in UTC+8 and is the same as or related to Red Heron (reported by Acronis), based on the shared C2 domain, malware family, Gitea exploitation and other TTPs. The actor exploited the wp2shell WordPress chain (CVE-2026-6303…
A multinational advisory (CISA, NSA, FBI, AIVD, MIVD, NCSC-UK and others) warns that the Russian state-supported APT LAUNDRY BEAR (aka Void Blizzard, TA488) has compromised Western government, defense industrial base and NGO organizations running Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) since at least July 2025. The campaign uses a view-based XSS…
