Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Warfare / Network Security The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google's Mandiant, which described the hack as a "multi-event cyber attack" leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems … [Read more...] about Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes
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Russian Sandworm Hackers Impersonate Ukrainian Telecoms to Distribute Malware
A threat cluster linked to the Russian nation-state actor tracked as Sandworm has continued its targeting of Ukraine with commodity malware by masquerading as telecom providers, new findings show. Recorded Future said it discovered new infrastructure belonging to UAC-0113 that mimics operators like Datagroup and EuroTransTelecom to deliver payloads such as Colibri loader and … [Read more...] about Russian Sandworm Hackers Impersonate Ukrainian Telecoms to Distribute Malware
2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation – Wizard Spider and Sandworm Edition
Threat actor groups like Wizard Spider and Sandworm have been wreaking havoc over the past few years – developing and deploying cybercrime tools like Conti, Trickbot, and Ryuk ransomware. Most recently, Sandworm (suspected to be a Russian cyber-military unit) unleashed cyberattacks against Ukranian infrastructure targets. To ensure cybersecurity providers are battle ready, … [Read more...] about 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation – Wizard Spider and Sandworm Edition