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Threat Intelligence

Your Business Is Already a Wartime Target. Here Is What to Do About It.

Nation-states attacking private companies is not a future risk. It happened at scale in 2017 and the conditions that made it possible have only grown more complicated since.

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Threat Intelligence

Spanish police arrest suspected helper of pro-Russian hacking crews

The man in Palencia allegedly helped a Ukrainian hacker flee toward Russia and supported groups linked to attacks on U.S. water and energy sites.

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Threat Intelligence

Iran, Russia, and China Have Been Quietly Attacking Water Systems — and the Door Was Usually Left Unlocked

A new threat-intelligence report finds three governments targeting water and wastewater infrastructure, not primarily to poison anyone, but to cause fear, probe weaknesses, and pre-position for future conflict. The tools they're using are embarrassingly basic.

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Threat Intelligence

US warns Russian spies are still hunting your WhatsApp and Signal accounts

CISA and the FBI say Russian intelligence officers are running fresh phishing campaigns to hijack accounts on messaging apps used by journalists, officials and activists.

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Threat Intelligence

SSU, FBI Detail Russian Phishing Op Targeting Signal and Telegram Accounts

Ukrainian counterintelligence says GRU and FSB-linked operators ran fake tech-support flows against officials' messengers across Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S.

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Threat Intelligence

Russia's Signal Phishing Now Targets the Backup Recovery Key — and the Key Doesn't Expire

An FBI/CISA update says GRU-linked operators are coaxing victims into surrendering their Signal Backup Recovery Key, which yields full message history and durable account access.

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Policy & Regulation

Citizen Lab: Cellebrite UFED Used on Pivovarov iPhone Three Months After Russia Sales Halt

Forensic traces and a Russian court filing place a UFED extraction on the activist's device in June 2021, raising hard questions about post-sale controls on dual-use forensic kit.

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Threat Intelligence

Turla's STOCKSTAY: A Fresh .NET Backdoor Aimed at Kyiv and Rome

Google's threat hunters tie the Russian FSB-linked crew to a previously undocumented Windows implant hitting Ukrainian military targets and Italy-focused diplomatic entities.

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Threat Intelligence

Tracing 'The Gentlemen' RaaS: OPSEC Trail Points to an Izhevsk Operator

A 90/10 affiliate split rocketed the crew to second place by victim count. The administrator's forum breadcrumbs are less impressive.

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Threat Intelligence

How Ukraine Turned a Nation-State Cyberwar Into a Masterclass in Operational Resilience

Former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba details how pre-planned contingencies — not ad-hoc crisis management — kept Ukrainian government and business functions alive under sustained Russian attack.

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Threat Intelligence

Gamaredon Keeps Riding the WinRAR Path-Traversal Bug Into Ukrainian Endpoints

CVE-2025-8088 is months old and patched. The Russian crew is still landing GammaPhish, GammaWorm, and GammaSteel with it.

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Threat Intelligence

Russia's Tech Embargo Run-Around: Shell Companies, Middlemen, and Embedded Spies

Western sanctions were supposed to starve Moscow's military-industrial base of critical components. Instead, Russian intelligence built a procurement machine to go get them anyway.

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Threat Intelligence

GREYVIBE: New Russian-Speaking Cluster Tied to Sustained Operations Against Ukraine

Researchers attribute an August 2025 campaign wave to a previously undocumented actor whose tasking patterns align with Kremlin interests.

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Threat Intelligence

GREYVIBE: The Russian-Speaking Threat Actor Targeting Ukraine

Persistent attacks align with Kremlin interests, spotlighting continuous geopolitical cyber warfare.

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Threat Intelligence

GreyVibe's AI Playbook: What Russia-Linked Operators Are Actually Doing With ChatGPT and Gemini

A threat actor researchers are calling GreyVibe is reportedly weaving commercial AI tools into its attack workflow. The real story isn't the hype — it's the operational specifics.

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