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Data center
Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, sparking claims that Russian troll farms went quiet

Russian tech giant Yandex confirmed that drones hit three of its data centers, shutting down the facilities in Sasovo and Vladimir and knocking out part of the infrastructure …

MATCHBOIL
What is MATCHBOIL? The Russia-aligned malware that installs a spying backdoor

ESET researchers traced almost two years of changes to MATCHBOIL, a downloader that the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 uses to plant a second program on Windows machines in …

deepfake
UK gears up for fight against Russia’s disinformation machine

The UK government will create a new body to track and disrupt disinformation campaigns run by hostile states, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced at the United Nations …

AI
Russian hackers plant nuclear weapon prompt in malware to trip AI safety guardrails

Russian state hackers are trying to interfere with AI-assisted malware analysis in Ukraine by deliberately setting off AI safety mechanisms, ESET has found. The technique, …

wireless
Russian hackers abuse hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and deploy malware

Midnight Blizzard, the Russian threat actor tied to the country’s foreign intelligence service, has spent months targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like …

Microsoft Exchange
Laundry Bear’s new Microsoft Exchange attack triggers on email open (CVE-2026-42897)

Russia-affiliated cyber espionage group Laundry Bear (aka Void Blizzard, aka TA488) is exploiting CVE-2026-42897, a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, …

Russian flag
Russian hackers exploit unpatched Zimbra servers to steal emails

Russian state-backed hacker group Laundry Bear has been breaking into government and commercial networks for at least a year by exploiting a vulnerability in the Zimbra …

Russian flag
EU and UK blacklist Russia’s cyber operators over efforts to destabilize Europe

The EU and the UK jointly sanctioned dozens of Russian individuals and entities, accusing Moscow of coordinating a malicious cyber ecosystem targeting Europe, its member …

chess
Oil shipments, drone makers, and a poisoned code library targeted in recent APT campaigns

Geopolitical pressure drove much of the state-sponsored cyber activity recorded between October 2025 and March 2026, according to ESET’s latest APT Activity Report. …

lock
Authorities seize 800 servers used for cyberattacks and disinformation

Dutch authorities arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a hosting provider that investigators say supported Russian activities aimed at undermining democracy and …

Google AI
Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI

Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source …

malware
Attackers compromised Daemon Tools software to deliver backdoors

Kaspersky researchers uncovered another supply chain compromise involving a popular Windows tool: Daemon Tools, an app for mounting disk image files as virtual drives that is …

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