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After Russian Hackers Knocked Out a Satellite Network, an AI Tool Is Now Stress-Testing Its Defences
Viasat's satellite network was crippled by a Russian cyberattack in 2022. Now an AI-assisted security tool from Atalanta is being used to check whether the rebuilt defences can hold.
CameraSwarm: hackers hijack 14,500 Dahua cameras in month-long spree
A 35-day campaign quietly took over Dahua security cameras across Ukraine and Russia, planting a hidden backdoor account that even factory resets can't remove.
737 Fake VPN Extensions in Chrome Store Quietly Hijacked Browsers
The free browser add-ons promised to unblock websites for Russian speakers. Instead they routed every page a user visited through servers the operators controlled.
Fake Job Offers From Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian IT Staff
Ukraine's cyber emergency team says a Sandworm subgroup is posing as recruiters to slip remote-control malware onto engineers' laptops.
New Zealand Sanctions 33 Russia-Linked Cyber Operators and Child Abduction Networks
Wellington's latest penalties name hackers and individuals tied to the forced removal of Ukrainian children, signalling that digital warfare now sits alongside human-rights abuses on the sanctions list.
Fake Russian company websites ran a nine-year scam on foreign buyers
Fraudsters cloned real Russian fertilizer and petrochemical firms, then pocketed advance payments from international customers.
Russia Charges Telegram's Pavel Durov With Aiding Terrorism
The FSB says Telegram refused to take down channels it flagged. Durov, living abroad, calls the case political theatre.
Three Security Stories You May Have Missed: Industrial Switches, Russian Email Spying, and a Rail Ransomware Shakedown
A digest of under-reported threats: flaws in Siemens industrial network hardware, a Russian hacking campaign targeting Zimbra webmail servers, and a ransomware attack against Swiss train maker Stadler Rail.
Russian Hackers Are Reading Your Email Just by Sending You One: Zimbra Zero-Day Explained
A Kremlin-linked crew tracked as LAUNDRY BEAR is exploiting CVE-2025-66376 in Zimbra webmail to steal 90 days of email the moment a victim opens a booby-trapped message.
Russian spies are hijacking Europe's security cameras to watch weapons move to Ukraine
Dutch intelligence says a Kremlin unit is quietly logging into internet-connected CCTV to track military convoys, aid shipments and troop positions.
Hackers hijack Russian security tool ViPNet to spy on government agencies
A campaign called HelloNet has been slipping malicious files into ViPNet updates since May, hitting Russian ministries, energy firms and transport operators.
Armenia Grabs Russian Tourist at Yerevan Airport on U.S. REvil Warrant
Aleksandr Ermakov has sat in an Armenian detention center since June 28. His lawyers say the FBI has the wrong man.
Russian Spies Are Testing Australia's Unlocked Doors
Australia's top signals agency has joined two dozen allied governments to warn that hackers working for Russian intelligence are quietly breaking into poorly secured network devices across critical industries worldwide.
Europe's Cyber Threat Picture Looks Nothing Like America's. The Numbers Prove It.
Business email scams hit 81% of reported incidents in Germany and the Benelux region. Europe absorbs nearly half of all global denial-of-service attacks. A new wave of ransomware gangs is arriving. The regulatory rulebook is entirely different, too.
US charges three Russians behind 'bulletproof' hosting service used by LockBit and Play ransomware
Federal prosecutors say Media Land and ML.Cloud rented servers to ransomware crews that caused more than $62 million in damage across 21 US states.