The Russian group, known as “Turla” and accused by Estonian and Czech authorities of operating on behalf of Russia’s FSB security service, has used Iranian tools and computer infrastructure to successfully hack in to organizations in at least 20 different countries over the last 18 months, British security officials said.
The hacking campaign, the extent of which has not been previously revealed, was most active in the Middle East but also targeted organizations in Britain, they said.
Paul Chichester, a senior official at Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency, said the operation shows state-backed hackers are working in a “very crowded space” and developing new attacks and methods to better cover their tracks.
In a statement accompanying a joint advisory with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre said it wanted to raise industry awareness about the activity and make attacks more difficult for its adversaries.
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Russia's Cozy Bear Hackers Resurface With Clever New Tricks | WIRED
The researchers found that the spying campaign extend both years before the DNC hack and years after—until as recently as June of this year—and used an entirely new collection of malware tools, some of which deployed novel tricks to avoid detection. "They rebuilt their arsenal," says ESET researcher Matthieu Faou, who presented the new findings earlier this week at ESET's research conference in Bratislava, Slovakia. "They never stopped their espionage activity."
In fact, one of the intrusions that included MiniDuke began in 2013, before the malware had been publicly identified—a strong indicator that the Dukes perpetrated the breach rather than someone else who picked up the malware from another source.
The Dukes' RegDuke implant uses a different obfuscation trick, planting a fileless back door in a target computer's memory! Videos for Hacking The Hackers : Russian Group 0:29 Cheryl Tweedy Joins New Queue of Stars Suing Sun Over Hacking YouTube!! That back door then communicates to a Dropbox account used as its command-and-control, hiding its messages using a steganography technique that invisibly alters pixels in images like the ones shown below to embed secret information.
All the Code Connections Between Russia's Hackers, Visualized | WIRED
Two Israeli companies, Check Point and Intezer, today released the results of a broad analysis of code that's been previously attributed to Russian state-sponsored hacking operations! Hacking the hackers: Russian group 'hijacked' Iran spy ...www.aljazeera.com /news/2019/10/ hacking - hackers - russian - ...iran-spy...The Russian group , known as "Turla" and accused by Estonian and Czech authorities of operating on behalf of Russia's FSB security service , has used Iranian tools and computer infrastructure to...!! The two firms pulled 2,500 samples from the malware database VirusTotal and used Intezer's automated tools to comb those specimens for code matches or similarities, filtering out false positives like reuse of open source components! Hacking the hackers: Russian group hijacked Iranian spying ...www.digitalmunition.me/ ...iranian...The Russian group, known as "Turla" and accused by Estonian and Czech authorities of operating on behalf of Russia's FSB security service, has used Iranian tools and computer infrastructure to successfully hack in to organizations in at least 20 different countries over the last 18 months, British security officials said.!! The result is a kind of constellation chart for every known Russia state hacking group's tool kit, showing clusters that likely represent independent groups. "The information has previously been really scattered! Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With ...thehacker ...russian - hackers .html Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With Evolving Tactics August 21, 2019 Swati Khandelwal Silence APT , a Russian -speaking cybercriminal group , known for targeting financial organizations primarily in former Soviet states and neighboring countries is now aggressively targeting banks in more than 30 countries across America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.!! Now for the first time we have a one-stop shop for Russian APTs," says Yaniv Balmas, Check Point's head of cyber research, using the acronym for "advanced persistent threat," an industry term for sophisticated state hackers. "You can look at this, and it's all there.
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First, users and IT administrators need to ensure their operating system and all of their third-party applications are up to date. If they are outdated, security holes are being left unpatched and leaving the backdoor wide open for cybercriminals.
Second, you must analyze your current antivirus program and the approach it's taking. Often, security solution providers use a reactive approach to security! Hacking The Hackers: Russian Group ...- thevouxshade.com thevouxshade.com/ ...The Russian group, known as "Turla" and accused by Estonian and Czech authorities of operating on behalf of Russia's FSB security service , has used Iranian tools and computer infrastructure to successfully hack into organizations in at least 20 different countries over the last 18 months, British security officials said.!! That means the software will only block known bad files, permitting all other unknown files to install. Then, if one of the unknown files happens to be bad, they will work to remove it – if possible. Based on industry research, this approach is no longer feasible.
This is why the US-CERT, FBI and NSA have encouraged the use of application "whitelisting." By using a whitelist, the device will only be allowed to run known, trusted programs. This means, even if the enemy found a way to worm their way into the server or computer, they couldn't install anything malicious, because only good programs and files can run.
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Hackers are draining ATMs across the US | Fox News
The number of so-called “jackpotting” attacks – getting ATMs to spit out all of the cash inside – in regions including the U.S. and Latin America has gone up, according to a joint investigation by Motherboard and German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. Large-scale ATM cash-out hacking had mostly been an overseas criminal enterprise.
The U.S. is a "quite popular" target for ATM hackers, a source told Motherboard. These types of cash-out crimes have been around for a while, as noted in a report from Trend Micro, a cybersecurity firm.
Last year, hackers broke into computers at an Indian bank and walked off with $11.5 million in unauthorized ATM withdrawals — an incident that happened after the FBI issued a warning about the imminent scheme.
Krebs on Security, a cybersecurity publication, described how it works. “Just prior to executing on ATM cash-outs, the intruders will remove many fraud controls at the financial institution, such as maximum withdrawal amounts and any limits on the number of customer ATM transactions daily.”
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