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Latest Turla backdoor leverages email PDF attachments as C&C mechanism

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. “These organizations are the latest known additions to the list of victims of this APT group that has been targeting governments, state officials, diplomats, and military authorities since at least 2008.” The backdoor is a standalone DLL (dynamic link library) that interacts with Outlook and The Bat!

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

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APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). The following timeline tracks APT28 back to 2008 and gives us a quick view on how big and organized is the threat group over the past decade. Attack Timeline.