One of Russia’s most prominent pro-democracy organisations, the Free Russia Foundation, announced that it was investigating a potential cyberattack on Friday, following a leak of thousands of emails and documents related to its work.
The hackers were working with a unit in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, according to the DOJ.
Russia-linked phishing campaigns are targeting civil society and NGOs operating in the region and abroad, according to a new investigation by Access Now and the Citizen Lab.
Cross-platform efforts denigrated France's handling of the games and fomented fear of a potential terrorist attack
Russian and Moldovan companies targeted by XDSpy phishing campaign, deploying DSDownloader malware, amid escalating cyber conflicts.
Both men committed major financial crimes—and had powerful friends.
This report delves into Doppelgänger information operations conducted by Russian actors, focusing on their activities from early June to late-July 2024. Our investigation was motivated by the unexpected snap general election in France, prompting a closer look at Doppelgänger activities during this period.
While recent activities have been described since1,2, our first dive into the information operations topic offers a complementary threat-intelligence analysts’ perspective on the matter, brings additional knowledge on associated infrastructure, tactics and motivation in Europe and the United States.
How Doppelganger, one of the biggest Russian disinformation campaigns, is using EU companies to keep spreading its propaganda – despite sanctions.
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This page is designed to gather a timeline of the Doppelganger operation with a few elements gathered from different reports.
Russian media outlet RT ran the bot farm to pump out disinformation via 968 Twitter accounts, the US Justice Department says.
Apple has caved to pressure from Russian authorities and removed a number of the best iPhone VPN apps from the App Store in the country.
In May, hackers published fake news on the website of the Polish Press Agency claiming the country’s authorities had announced a partial mobilization of 200,000 men to be sent to fight in a war in Ukraine.
According to the Department of Justice, 22-year-old Amin Stigal helped Russian military intelligence carry out cyber operations, including probing computers belonging to a federal government agency in Maryland.
An alert from France's ANSSI confirms several incidents that had previously been publicly reported and attributed to the Kremlin-backed hacking group that the French agency tracks as Nobelium.
U.S. officials imposed the “first of its kind” ban arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national security because of its links to Russia.
Olga Loiek, a University of Pennsylvania student was looking for an audience on the internet – just not like this.
Shortly after launching a YouTube channel in November last year, Loiek, a 21-year-old from Ukraine, found her image had been taken and spun through artificial intelligence to create alter egos on Chinese social media platforms.
Her digital doppelgangers - like "Natasha" - claimed to be Russian women fluent in Chinese who wanted to thank China for its support of Russia and make a little money on the side selling products such as Russian candies.
One of Russia's top security officials called on Thursday for Russians to mobilise to inflict "maximum harm" on Western societies and infrastructure as payback for increasingly tough sanctions being imposed on Moscow by the U.S. and its allies.
A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster’s Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor.
Recently KILLNET creator; ‘KillMilk’, announced that they were building a global team of operators from the darknet and special services members, with financially motivated destructive capabilities. Their operation went full circle from offering services to hackers and competing businessmen, to taking orders from private and state persons, along with defending the interests of the Russian Federation. This report focuses on analyzing KILLNET, Subgroups, capabilities, and recent development in the group’s motive.
In this analysis, Morphisec Threat Labs details the latest Sticky Werewolf cyber threat group campaign targeting the aviation industry.
