Cybercrime

North Korean hacker group attacked Russian aerospace and defense targets

October 20, 2020

The North Korean hacker group “Kimsuky” is reportedly carrying out attacks against military and industrial entities inside Russia, cybersecurity experts told the newspaper Kommersant.  Earlier this year in the spring, Kimsuky hackers sent malicious emails seeking confidential information at aerospace and defense companies in Russia, says Anastasia Tikhonova, the head of the information security company “Group-IB.” …

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Russian Darkweb shares personal data of nearly 9 million US voters

September 2, 2020

Russian Internet users have shared the personal data of nearly every voter in Michigan (7.6 million of the state’s 7.8 million voters), as well as the information of another million voters in Arkansas, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Florida, according to the newspaper Kommersant. The data recently appeared on a Darknet forum, posted by a user nicknamed …

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UK, US and Canada allege Russian cyberattacks on Covid-19 research centers

July 16, 2020

Russian cyber actors are targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development, according to a new warning by US, UK and Canadian security officials on Thursday that details activity by a Russian hacking group called APT29, which also goes by the name ‘the Dukes’ or ‘Cozy Bear.’ An advisory published by the UK National Cyber Security …

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Kaspersky researchers found a new fraudulent technique that steals online payment details

June 23, 2020

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a new technique for stealing users’ payment information on online shopping websites, dubbed web skimming.  By registering for Google Analytics accounts and injecting these accounts’ tracking code into the websites’ source code, attackers can collect users’ credit card details. Web skimming is a popular practice used by attackers to steal users’ credit …

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FBI arrests Russian behind Deer.io, a Shopify-like platform for cybercrime

March 11, 2020

The FBI has arrested a Russian national believed to be behind Deer.io, a Shopify-like platform that hosts online stores where hackers advertise and sell hacked accounts and stolen user information. The suspect, named Kirill Victorovich Firsov, was arrested on Saturday, March 7, at the John F. Kennedy Airport, in New York. US officials say Firsov …

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US Justice Department indicts Russian national Yevgeniy Nikulin in major cybercriminal offenses

March 12, 2020

The US Department of Justice indicted Russian national Yevgeniy Nikulin in several major cybercriminal offenses, such as stealing personal identities, usernames and credit card information of customers  from Formspring, LinkedIn and Dropbox. Nikita Kislitsin, an employee of a cybersecurity firm with offices in Moscow and Singapore Group-IB is an alleged co-conspirator in the Formspring 2012 …

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How top international hacking collective takes advantage of family ties in Russian intelligence community

December 13, 2019

On December 5, the U.S. government formally indicted members of the Russian hacker group “Evil Corp.” Washington says these men are behind “the world’s most egregious cyberattacks,” causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to banks. The Justice Department believes Evil Corp’s leader is Maxim Yakubets, who remains at large and was still actively involved in hacking activities …

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Media report: Access to Moscow’s facial recognition system is available on the black market

November 12, 2020

Andrey Kaganskikh, a journalist for MBK Media, has found that access to Moscow’s surveillance cameras and their new facial recognition technology is being sold on the black market. As of the beginning of 2019, there were more than 170,000 surveillance cameras installed in Moscow. They are posted in courtyards, lobbies, parks, schools, clinics, malls, construction sites, and, of course, government …

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New massive data breach hits Sberbank

October 24, 2019

On October 24, the newspaper Kommersant reported that Sberbank clients’ personal data were for sale on the black market in a database that apparently contains roughly a million lines of customers’ passport numbers, registration information, home addresses, telephone numbers, account numbers and balances, and records of any recent communication with the bank’s call center. Spokespeople for Sberbank, …

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Sberbank hit by huge data breach

October 3, 2019

The personal details of millions of Sberbank customers may have been leaked, in what would be the largest-ever data breach in Russian banking, according to cyber security experts. Analysts at cybersecurity firm DeviceLock found personal information relating to up to 60 million Sberbank credit card holders for sale on the black market. They were able …

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Russian hacker pleads guilty in massive consumer data theft in the USA

September 25, 2019

A Russian hacker has admitted to his participation in one of the largest thefts of consumer data from U.S. financial institutions, brokerage firms, and other companies, the US Justice Department says. Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Andrei Tyurin pleaded guilty to computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal online gambling offenses, the …

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