#Russia

Ex-NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Data to Russia

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October 24, 2023 at 12:30PM A former NSA employee, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, has pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to transmit classified defense information to Russia. Dalke used an encrypted email account to send excerpts of classified documents to an individual he believed to be a Russian agent, but was actually an FBI employee. He … Read more

Google TAG Detects State-Backed Threat Actors Exploiting WinRAR Flaw

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October 19, 2023 at 12:33AM State-backed threat actors from Russia and China are exploiting a security flaw in the WinRAR archiver tool for Windows. The vulnerability (CVE-2023-38831) allows attackers to execute code when a user tries to view a benign file in a ZIP archive. The attackers include FROZENBARENTS (Sandworm), FROZENLAKE (APT28), and ISLANDDREAMS (APT40). … Read more