Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-06-26 03:00 PDT
- Russia Used Cellebrite on Jailed Activist's iPhone Months After Sales Cutoff
The Hacker News • 2026-06-26 01:49 • thehackernews.com
Russian authorities used Cellebrite’s UFED forensic tools to break into the iPhone of detained opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov in June 2021, three months after Cellebrite said it would stop selling its tools and services to Russia and Belarus.The finding, published June 25 by the Citizen Lab, rests on two things that rarely line up: traces on the phone itself and an official Russian
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/russia-used-cellebrite-on-jailed.html - Google Details Turla's New STOCKSTAY Backdoor Used in Ukraine Espionage Attacks
The Hacker News • 2026-06-26 00:15 • thehackernews.com
The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Turla has been attributed to a previously undocumented .NET backdoor called STOCKSTAY that has been deployed against government and military organizations in Ukraine, and entities that have an interest in Italian foreign policy.Describing the Windows backdoor as continually developed by the hacking group, Google Threat Intelligence Group (
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/google-details-turlas-new-stockstay.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
