Oleg Shakirov

"It is not a question of five or six years but significantly more, when there are no nuclear weapons. By that time, the weapons will have been destroyed, and integration will have been completed not just in Europe but beyond its borders," Yeltsin said in Rome [...].

Putin recently said that Russia requested twice to join NATO (in 1954 & 2000). Actually that happened multiple times including when Russia was not in the best shape

See here on Yeltsin's appeal in late 1991, days before the collapse of the Soviet Union

www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

Nothing makes you more aware of cyber security than the shortage of Asahi beer

Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

@snlyngaas.bsky.social did a better job this year

Did Russia Attack a Ukrainian Scam Call Center? Russian media—albeit not the officials—claim that a drone strike on Dnepropetrovsk (Dnipro) hit an office building that housed scammers.

Over past couple of days Russian media claimed that Russian drone strike hit a scam call center in Dnipro. Here are my review of the coverage and quick analysis of whether Russia now considers scammers a legitimate military target (probably not)

fromcyberia.substack.com/p/did-russia...

This one is from Genius; they use CookiePro by OneTrust. But this is typical these days

How is this real...

Microsoft report blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Cloudflare report www.cloudflare.com/threat-intel...

Kudos to Microsoft & Cloudflare for taking action against RaccoonO365

Here's the link to relevant legal files with a bunch of seized domains & other interesting details (via Health ISAC)

noticeofpleadings.com/RaccoonO365/

a) Even in Seqrite's report you can see a bunch of 'test' email addresses in the list of recipients which makes more sense when you do a simulated rather than real attack

b) some folks in Kazakh infosec chats got angry over Seqrite's report even before KazMunayGas's denial

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APT or Another Phishing Training?

Seqrite reported an attack on the Kazakhstani oil company KazMunayGas attributed to a new group NoisyBear www.seqrite.com/blog/operati...

Yet the company later argued that this was a simulated attack orda.kz/planovoe-mer...

This looks plausible:

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Yes

It does work, but not always. Maybe too many people tried checking out?

defense.gov now redirects to war.gov, but the page won't load at the moment

Y'all are missing out on the BRICS+ Fashion Summit

This story is fascinating to watch as the Russian government keeps finding solutions to the problems of its own making, obviously without addressing the underlying cause, i.e. the war

Since May Russia regularly shuts down mobile Internet to counter the drone threat

Shutdowns disrupt taxis, food delivery, ATMs, remote work & upset ppl

Now the gov't wants to create white list of services that would be available even during shutdowns

www.interfax.ru/russia/1040184

Эскалация в киберпространстве: о чем говорит атака против «Аэрофлота» Кибератака на «Аэрофлот» напомнила об уязвимости современной инфраструктуры, которая только обостряется, когда интернет становится одним из фронтов международного конфликта. При этом, отмечает аспиран...

My take (in Russian) on this week's cyber attack against Aeroflot. The key idea is pretty simple: to solve the problem of cyber war, information security measures alone are not enough; it needs to be adressed politically, too, through conflict resolution

www.forbes.ru/mneniya/5430...

Trump says he "ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions" in response to ex-President Medvedev's provocative statements (probably his recent tweet)

This reminded me of the 2020 report by Alexi Drew & @heatherwilly.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/csss/assets/...

This is what's actually happening, yes

Сайт специалистов по кибербезопасности в Беларуси взломан – так ли это Эксперты рассказали, как отличать реальную информацию о хакерских атаках от фейков.

The alleged attackers have already collaborated before: in late March they claimed a hack of the Belarusian national CERT, apparently exaggerating the impact of the attack

tochka.by/articles/lif...

Silent Crow emerged on Telegram in January & leaked several datasets allegedly stolen from Russian firms (at least 2 cases were confirmed in court: t.me/cyberguerre/..., t.me/cyberguerre/...). Acc. to BI.ZONE researchers, Silent Crow is rebranded DumpForums

Cyber Partisans formed in fall 2020 on the backdrop of the protests following presidential elections in Belarus. Initially it mostly targeted Belarusian gov't & organizations, but starting in 2022 also hit Russian targets

See bsky.app/profile/shak...

The immediate impact for Aeroflot goes beyond passengers' discontent & crowds at Sheremetyevo (msk1.ru/text/transpo...) & includes its stocks plunging (www.rbc.ru/quote/news/a...)

It remains to be seen how soon the airline will recover & whether it would face legal consequences

Russia's Office of Prosecutor-General said that the incident was caused by a hacker attack & opened a criminal case under art. 272 of the Criminal Code (illegal access to computer info)

t.me/genprocrf/5308

See Aeroflot statements here t.me/aeroflot_pr

A major cyber incident in Russia: two groups, Cyber Partisans & Silent Crow, took credit for a cyber attack on Aeroflot, claiming they destroyed its internal IT systems. Aeroflot didn't acknowledge the attack but canceled nearly 100 flights & delayed some more due to an 'outage'

* to clarify: reporting late is ok, not crediting your source is not

I can relate, but on some level I think it's ok. This field is full of obscure stories