Hackers compiled lists of Russians for US sanctions

0
Recently we Reportedhow hackers are actively attacking Russian banks, disguising themselves as Russian government agencies. And now, it became known that in Russia there are whole hacker groups that are looking for potential applicants among the Russians for inclusion in the US and European sanctions lists. About this, at the AntiFraud event, said the head of the international company Group-IB Ilya Sachkov.



According to him, it turns out that cybercriminals collect information about bank accounts and payments. Intrude into critical infrastructure of banks and entire sectors economics Of Russia. Sachkov said that one company or another may be imperceptibly under the supervision of cyber burglars and other cybercriminals, and for a long time.

At the same time, a source from the sphere of cybersecurity, who wished to remain unnamed, specified that he was aware of two or three cases when certain people fell under the influence of Western sanctions precisely thanks to the activity of the aforementioned hackers.

It should be added that earlier experts from ASERT (France) identified a hacker attack during which cybercriminals infiltrated users' browsers for espionage.

After that, I was glad that experts and cybersecurity experts in the West suspected the Chinese hacker conglomerate APT in the incident. Indeed, in China, for cyber espionage, in addition to government agencies (PLA and Ministry of Security), civilian hacker groups are also used. So they are called APT (APT10, APT12, APT16, etc.) and carry out so-called ART attacks. But it is doubtful that such activities in Russia are beneficial to the Chinese, and even for the sake of the West.
  • https://steemit.com/
Our news channels

Subscribe and stay up to date with the latest news and the most important events of the day.