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Russian soldiers stand on Red Square in central Moscow on September 29, 2022, as the square is sealed prior to a ceremony of the incorporation of the new territories into Russia. (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia-aligned threat groups dupe Ukrainian targets via Signal

Google researchers say multiple Russian state threat groups have conducted remote phishing operations to target and compromise Signal accounts.
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PARASKOVIIVKA, UKRAINE – DECEMBER 17: An electric substation of salt mine on December 17, 2022 in Paraskoviivka, Ukraine. Now local residents remain in the village and the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There is no electricity, the village is under constant shelling. Communication works only on the pedestrian bridge via the railway. The salt mines of the state enterprise “Artemsil” stopped working due to hostilities at the end of May. (Photo by Vitalii Pavlenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russian hackers disrupted Ukrainian electrical grid last year

The notorious Russian hacking group known as Sandworm took down a substation that caused a brief outage, according to a new Mandiant report.
An operator of the volunteer organization ‘Postup’ controls the flight of an UAV carrying a metal detector to search for mines near the town of Derhachi, Kharkiv region, on October 1, 2023. (SERGEY BOBOK / AFP)

Russian hackers offered phony drone training to exploit WinRAR vulnerability

Despite an August patch, Russian and Chinese state-backed hackers are using a vulnerability in the popular software to carry out espionage.
A mural near the Giraffe shopping mall depicting two girls drawing a lightning bolt in the colors of the Ukrainian flag on September 25, 2023 in Bucha, Ukraine. (Photo by Andrii Nesterenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russian hacking operations target Ukrainian law enforcement

Ukrainian officials say Russian hackers targeted counter-intelligence and law enforcement data during the first half of this year.
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