hacktivism
EclecticIQ Retrospective: A Look at the Themes & Events That Shaped the 2023 Cyber Landscape
As the year draws to a close, EclecticIQ’s Intelligence & Research Team looked back on the 2023 cyber landscape: from the evolving tactics of Chinese state-sponsored cyber operations, the increasing integration of ...
Following the Money: Killnet’s ‘Infinity Forum’ Wooing Likeminded Cybercriminals
Pro-Kremlin hacktivist DDoS group Killnet has created a new illicit forum, called Infinity, that hopes to bridge the gap between hacktivists and cybercriminals—and continue its quest for money and notoriety. The post ...
Pro-Kremlin Hacktivist Groups Seeking Impact By Courting Notoriety
Newfound relationships between pro-Kremlin hacktivist groups and the Russian government go beyond helping Russia with their own propaganda operations, also alluding to behind-the-scenes coordination between the government and these hacktivist groups that ...
Investigating NATO-Themed Phishing Lures With EclecticIQ Intelligence Center and Endpoint Response Tool
Synopsis With cyberattacks such a common occurrence, analysts must be able to stay ahead of the curve by investigating files and indicators of compromise quickly and efficiently. The EclecticIQ Intelligence Center (IC) ...
U.S. Seeks to Incentivize Semiconductor Manufacturing Domestically
Policy and Governance: U.S. Government Restricts AI Chips to China U.S. government officials have instructed the American technology company NVIDIA to stop exporting products containing the A100 and H100, two high-end processors ...
This was H1 2022: Part 3 – Beyond the War
Being caught up in all the events and media attention stemming from the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, one could forget that there is still activity outside the realm of the war. True, the war ...
The Russia-Ukraine crisis shakes up the cybercriminal ecosystem
Table of Contents Introduction Russian Side UNC1151/Ghostwriter/TA445 The Red Bandits Conti Team Ukrainian side IT Army of Ukraine Anonymous Belarusian Cyber Partisans AgainstTheWest (ATW) Network Battalion 65′ (NB65) Underground forums position Raidforums ...
The Analyst Prompt #03 – SPECIAL EDITION: A Look at Cyber as a Tool of War in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Threat Actors: Conti Ransomware Group Announces it will Use ‘Retaliatory Measures’ Against ‘Western Warmongers’ On Friday, February 25th security researcher Brett Callow shared on Twitter a statement from the ransomware group Conti stating ...
Everything we know about the security gaps that led to this week’s Parler hack
Parler, the far-right social media platform that has garnered headlines after being used by Trump supporters to organise the now-infamous march on the US Capitol building, was taken down earlier this week ...
Analysis of the Top10 Hacktivist Operations
Key Points The most relevant hacktivist operations in the last 12 months were: #OpIceIsis, #OpChile, #OpChildSafety, #OpKillingBay and #OpBeast. The operation #OpGeorgeFloyd, born after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis ...
