A Russian-speaking cybercrime group has compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, leveraging off-the-shelf generative AI tools to automate and scale their operations, according to a new incident report from AWS. Attack Campaign Overview The campaign, which ran from mid-January to mid-February 2026, didn’t rely on sophisticated…
Russia’s notorious state-sponsored threat actor APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear) has been attributed to a sophisticated new campaign targeting organizations across Western and Central Europe. According to S2 Grupo’s LAB52 threat intelligence team, the campaign—codenamed Operation MacroMaze—was active between September 2025 and January 2026. What makes this campaign notable is its reliance on basic…
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has uncovered a new threat actor possibly affiliated with Russian intelligence services that has been systematically targeting Ukrainian organizations with a sophisticated malware strain known as CANFAIL. Target Profile The threat group has focused its operations on high-value targets within Ukraine, including: Defense and military organizations Government entities (regional and…
Russia’s infamous APT28 (Fancy Bear/Forest Blizzard) threat group has weaponized a recently patched Microsoft Office vulnerability in just three days, launching a sophisticated espionage campaign dubbed Operation Neusploit targeting government and diplomatic entities across Central and Eastern Europe. Rapid Weaponization of CVE-2026-21509 Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered that APT28 began exploiting CVE-2026-21509—a critical Microsoft Office memory…
A newly formed Russian hacktivist alliance called Russian Legion has launched OpDenmark, a coordinated cyberattack campaign against Danish critical infrastructure in retaliation for the country’s 1.5 billion DKK military aid package to Ukraine.
Russian state-sponsored threat actors launched coordinated cyberattacks against Poland’s energy sector on December 29, 2025, targeting over 30 wind and solar farms, a manufacturing company, and a major combined heat and power (CHP) plant that serves nearly 500,000 people, according to CERT Polska. The attacks aimed to cause sabotage during a period of severe winter…
Russian APT group Sandworm attempted to deploy destructive DynoWiper malware against Polish power plants in late December 2025. The attack was thwarted, but highlights ongoing threats to critical infrastructure from state-sponsored actors.
Source: Hackread | Author: Deeba Ahmed Poland has narrowly avoided a massive energy crisis following what officials are calling the largest cyberattack on the country in years. Between 29 and 30 December 2025, hackers attempted to break into the nation’s energy infrastructure, specifically targeting two combined heat and power (CHP) plants and systems that manage…
By Jonathan Munshaw READ ARTICLE Whether you want to call them “catfishing,” “pig butchering” or just good ‘old-fashioned “social engineering,” romance scams have been around forever. I was first introduced to them through the MTV show “Catfish,” but recently they seem to be making headlines as the term “pig butchering” enters the public lexicon. John…
READ ARTICLE By: Kevin Poireault Reporter, Infosecurity Magazine A new variant of the wiper malware AcidRain, known as AcidPour, has been discovered by SentinelOne’s threat intelligence team, SentinelLabs. AcidRain is destructive wiper malware attributed to Russian military intelligence. In May 2022, AcidRain was used in a broad-scale cyber-attack against Viasat’s KA-SAT satellites in Ukraine. The malware rendered…
