Tag: Russia

On June 12, 2023, several Swiss federal agencies and state-linked companies experienced website inaccessibility due to a cyber-attack.

Russian-linked ransomware group, LockBit, has been implicated in a surge of cyberattacks, targeting 24 victims within a span of just 24 hours.

IcedID is a banking Trojan which first emerged in September 2017. It spreads by mail spam campaigns and often uses other malwares like Emotet.

FormBook is an Infostealer targeting the Windows OS and was first detected in 2016. It is marketed as Malware as a Service (MaaS) in underground hacking forums.

Rostelecom is in discussions with the Russian government to provide up to 2 million mobile devices running on the Aurora operating system.

Dridex is a Banking Trojan turned botnet, that targets the Windows platform. It is delivered by spam campaigns and Exploit Kits.

Danabot is a modular banking Trojan written in Delphi that targets the Windows platform. The malware is distributed via malicious spam emails.

Kaspersky, has reported that iPhones on its network were hacked using an iOS vulnerability that exploited iMessage zero-click attacks.

Discovered in 2020, Bazar Loader and Bazar Backdoor are used in the initial stages of infection by the WizardSpider cybercrime gang.

ViperSoftX is a multi-stage cryptocurrency stealer that spreads within torrents and filesharing sites. Typically, it's distributed as a malicious crack for popular software.