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Russia-linked APT28 used post-compromise tool GooseEgg to exploit CVE-2022-38028 Windows flaw

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National Security Agency and Microsoft addressed it with the release of Microsoft October 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates. GooseEgg is usually deployed with a batch script, commonly named execute.bat or doit.bat. This script creates a file named servtask.bat, which includes commands for saving or compressing registry hives.

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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. A novelty observed in the recent attacks is the use of a USB propagation malware.

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Russia-linked Armageddon APT targets Ukrainian state organizations, CERT-UA warns

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Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon , Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google TAG: Russia, Belarus-linked APTs targeted Ukraine

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Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukrainian and European government and military organizations, as well as individuals. Pierluigi Paganini.

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GhostWriter APT targets state entities of Ukraine with Cobalt Strike Beacon 

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The phishing messages use a RAR-archive named “Saboteurs.rar”, which contains RAR-archive “Saboteurs 21.03.rar.” ” 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.

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Russia-linked Cyclops Blink botnet targeting ASUS routers

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In February, US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies published a joint security advisory about the Cyclops Blink bot that has been linked to the Russian-backed Sandworm APT group. Experts pointed out that these victims do not appear to be evidently valuable targets for either economic, military, or political espionage.

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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.