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Vulkan files: Russia's cyber army collects vulnerabilities
Vulkan files: Russia's cyber army collects vulnerabilities

An evaluation of the Vulkan files by many media and journalists shows that Russia's secret services FSB, GRU and SWR commission domestic companies to develop software and databases for cyber attacks, to look for vulnerabilities and to make them available to state hacker groups such as Sandworm. The linchpin of the story are the Vulkan files, which were passed anonymously to the reporter Hannes Munzinger. Thousands of pages of secret material contain training documents for the Russian cyber army. The possible targets of attacks are summarized in these documents: paralyzing control systems of rail, air and ship transport, disrupting the functions of energy companies,...

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Russia-Ukraine War: Complex Cyberespionage 
Russia-Ukraine War: Complex Cyberespionage

The war in Ukraine is also a cyber war that promotes cyber espionage. Bitdefender Labs discover recent attacks on the Elephant framework. Attacks also take place through phishing with the download of supposed Bitdefender AV software. A summary of current cyber espionage. Companies in the attacked country or in supporting nations connected to Ukraine are threatened by classic IT attack mechanisms, the perpetrators of which are politically motivated this time. In addition to deleting information, these include espionage. The Bitdefender Labs have analyzed the sophisticated attack mechanisms of the so-called Elephant Framework used for this. Cyber ​​war worsens global cybersecurity posture Threat intelligence experts…

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