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Yahoo
01-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia Oblast injure 7 people, damage critical infrastructure
Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Russia launched a series of attacks on Zaporizhzhia Oblast overnight, injuring seven people from May 31-June 1 and damaging critical infrastructure and residential buildings, local officials reported. Two civilians, a 53-year-old woman and 21-year-old man, were injured as a result of Russian strikes on the village of Verkhnya Tersa in the evening of May 31, regional governor Ivan Fedorov reported. Both people received medical attention. A house in Verkhnya Tersa was also destroyed as a result of the attack. A fire broke out and buildings near the at the impact site were damaged. The attacks continued into the next day, with Russia targeting a critical infrastructure facility in Zaporizhzhia. Russian later launched seven Shahed drones on June 1, injuring an additional person and damaging private homes, Fedorov reported. Most recently, four more people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the Polohivskyi district, according to Governor Fedorov's latest report. In total, Russia launched 501 strikes on 17 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast so far on June 1. Situated in southeastern Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia Oblast has been partially occupied since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. The region capital, the city of Zaporizhzhia, remains under Ukrainian control and is frequently targeted by Russian forces. Read also: Ukraine war latest: Russia reports 2nd consecutive day of Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow We've been working hard to bring you independent, locally-sourced news from Ukraine. Consider supporting the Kyiv Independent.
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia Oblast injure 3 people, damage critical infrastructure
Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Russia launched a series of attacks on Zaporizhzhia Oblast overnight, injuring three people and damaging critical infrastructure and residential buildings, local officials reported. Two civilians, a 53-year-old woman and 21-year-old man, were injured as a result of Russian strikes on the village of Verkhnya Tersa in the evening of May 31, regional governor Ivan Fedorov reported. Both people received medical attention. A house in Verkhnya Tersa was also destroyed as a result of the attack. A fire broke out and buildings near the at the impact site were damaged. The attacks continued into the next day, with Russia targeting a critical infrastructure facility in Zaporizhzhia. Russian later launched seven Shahed drones on June 1, injuring an additional person and damaging private homes, Fedorov reported. Situated in southeastern Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia Oblast has been partially occupied since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. The region capital, the city of Zaporizhzhia, remains under Ukrainian control and is frequently targeted by Russian forces. Read also: Ukraine war latest: Russia reports 2nd consecutive day of Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow We've been working hard to bring you independent, locally-sourced news from Ukraine. Consider supporting the Kyiv Independent.
Forbes
11-05-2025
- Forbes
Beware — These Ransomware Hackers Are Watching You Work
Ransomware attackers can now watch what you are doing. The ransomware threat is evolving, and attackers are continually seeking new angles and technologies to exploit, to aid with leveraging payments in these modern-day extortion schemes. Some are hard to fathom, like the DOGE-trolling hackers demanding $1 trillion, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows, and the increasingly common use of 2FA bypass attacks and access to 19 billion compromised passwords on the dark web. But what if ransomware hackers were using employee monitoring software to see what you are up to during the attack and to steal your credentials as well? Welcome to the sinister world of Qilin and Hunters International ransomware. While the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have recently issued a security alert about the dangers that unsophisticated threat actors pose to U.S. critical infrastructure services, that doesn't mean all ransomware hackers are using the kind of basic and elementary intrusion techniques described in the CISA advisory. Take the Qilin and Hunters International ransomware threat, whose affiliates have been observed using a legitimate employee monitoring tool during their attacks. The ransomware attacks in question started with malicious Google Ads deployed by the threat actors. These were designed to display 'when people searched for RVTools, a free Windows utility for managing VMware vSphere deployments,' Sergiu Gatlan at Bleeping Computer, said. If the would-be victim clicked through that advert then it started a waterfall of nefarious events leading to the download and installation of something called Kickidler. Here's the thing: Kickidler is not malware. In fact, it's a perfectly legitimate employee monitoring tool that's deployed by more than 5,000 organizations across the world. The key point of interest is that it provides a visual monitoring capability. Once installed, the ransomware hackers can literally see what you are doing. Varonis threat research investigators have suggested that the ransomware attackers have used the software in order to have undetected access to target systems for weeks at a time, enabling the collection of the credentials required to gain access to critical off-site cloud data backups. It is recommended, therefore, that network defenders ensure the effective and regular auditing of any installed remote monitoring and management software.
