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Russia-linked APT Gamaredon update TTPs in recent attacks against Ukraine

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The Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. ” reads the report published by Symantec.

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GhostWriter APT targets state entities of Ukraine with Cobalt Strike BeaconĀ 

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” This second archive contains SFX-archive “Saboteurs filercs.rar,” experts reported that the file name contains the right-to-left override (RTLO) character to mask the real extension. ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA. CERT-UA also published Indicators of Compromise for the recent campaign.

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New Gallmaker APT group eschews malware in cyber espionage campaigns

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A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors. ” continues Symantec.

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SWEED targets precision engineering companies in Italy

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Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe, it includes developing mechanical equipment for: automotive, railways, heavy industries and military grade technology. Basically the attacker asks to the victims to quote the entire list of spear-parts included in an attached Excel document. Technical Analysis.

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WinRAR CVE-2018-20250 flaw exploited in multiple campaigns

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The attackers used decoy documents apparently coming from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), a US association representing social work education. “To avoid user suspicion, the ACE file contains a decoy document, ā€œLetter of Approval.pdfā€, which purports to be from CSWE, the Council on Social Work Education as shown in Figure 1.

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A month later Gamaredon is still active in Eastern Europe

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During recent times, Gamaredon is targeting the Ukrainian military and law enforcement sectors too, as officially stated by the CERT-UA. cmd ā€ file. At the same time, the extracted document will be shown in order to divert the user attention and to continue the infection unnoticed. However, the file named ā€œ win32.sys