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Key Findings: A new Russian cyber campaign has targeted Ukrainian entities with two previously undocumented malware families named BadPaw and MeowMeow. The campaign has been attributed with moderate confidence to the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28. The attack chain initiates with a phishing email containing a link to a ZIP archive, which leads to the deployment of a .NET-based loader called BadPaw and a sophisticated backdoor called MeowMeow. Background T

Key Findings Researchers uncovered a Russian campaign targeting Ukrainian entities with new malware families BadPaw and MeowMeow delivered through phishing emails. The attack chain begins with a phishing email carrying a link to a ZIP archive. When opened, an HTA file displays a Ukrainian-language lure about border crossing appeals while secretly launching the infection chain. The malware uses the .NET Reactor packer to make analysis and reverse engineering harder, showing th

Key Findings Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a previously undocumented threat actor, possibly affiliated with Russian intelligence services, that has been targeting Ukrainian organizations with the CANFAIL malware. The threat actor has primarily targeted defense, military, government, and energy organizations within the Ukrainian regional and national governments, but has also shown growing interest in aerospace, manufacturing with military/drone ties,

Key Findings Ukrainian and German police raided homes linked to alleged Black Basta ransomware members, identifying two Ukrainian suspects. Law enforcement issued an international wanted notice for the group's alleged Russian ringleader, Oleg Nefedov. Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has been active since April 2022, impacting over 500 organizations worldwide and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. The cybercrime group has infected over 329 victims, i

Key Findings Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have identified two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Black Basta. The group's alleged leader, a 35-year-old Russian national named Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov (Нефедов Олег Евгеньевич), has been added to the European Union's Most Wanted and INTERPOL's Red Notice lists. The accused individuals specialized in technical hacking, including credential theft and "has

Key Findings The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0184 (also tracked as Hive0156) has been targeting Ukrainian military and government entities by leveraging the Viber messaging platform to deliver malicious ZIP archives. The attack campaign involves using Viber to distribute malicious ZIP files disguised as official Ukrainian parliamentary documents and military casualty data. The ZIP archives contain Windows shortcut (LNK) files posing as Microsoft Word and Excel do