{"id":1150720,"date":"2023-06-15T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1150720"},"modified":"2023-06-15T06:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:30:59","slug":"russia-backed-hackers-unleash-new-usb-based-malware-on-ukraines-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1150720","title":{"rendered":"Russia-backed hackers unleash new USB-based malware on Ukraine\u2019s military"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/russia-cyber-hack-800x534-1.jpe\" alt=\"Russia-backed hackers unleash new USB-based malware on Ukraine&#x2019;s military\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/russia-cyber-hack.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"667\" data-width=\"1000\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Hackers working for Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service have mounted multiple cyberattacks that used USB-based malware to steal large amounts of data from Ukrainian targets for use in its ongoing invasion of its smaller neighbor, researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sectors and nature of the organizations and machines targeted may have given the attackers access to significant amounts of sensitive information,\u201d researchers from Symantec, now owned by Broadcom, wrote in a <a href=\"link\">Thursday post<\/a>. \u201cThere were indications in some organizations that the attackers were on the machines of the organizations\u2019 human resources departments, indicating that information about individuals working at the various organizations was a priority for the attackers, among other things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group, which Symantec tracks as Shuckworm and other researchers call Gamaredon and Armageddon, has been active since 2014 and has been linked to Russia\u2019s FSB, the principal security service in that country. The group focuses solely on obtaining intelligence on Ukrainian targets. In 2020, researchers at security firm SentinelOne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelone.com\/blog\/who-are-the-gamaredon-group-and-what-do-they-want\/\">said<\/a> the hacking group had \u201cattacked over 5,000 individual entities across the Ukraine, with particular focus on areas where Ukrainian troops are deployed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1947749#p3\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1947749&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1947749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia-backed hackers unleash new USB-based malware on Ukraine\u2019s military<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers working for Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service have mounted multiple cyberattacks that used USB-based malware to steal large amounts of data from Ukrainian targets for use in its ongoing invasion of its smaller neighbor, researchers said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1150720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1150721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1150720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}