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UAC-0063

APT Group 3 zero-day CVEs ETDA ✓

Also Known As

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Target Countries 2

Countries highlighted in red

China Romania

Sectors Targeted

Telecommunications 517 Human Resources Consulting Services 541612

Details

Origin 🇷🇺 RU

Last Updated 25 Nov 2024

MITRE ATT&CK 25

T1027 - Obfuscated Files or Information T1027.013 - Obfuscated Files or Information T1036 - Masquerading T1053.005 - Scheduled Task T1056.002 - GUI Input Capture T1056.003 - Web Portal Capture T1059.005 - Visual Basic T1071.001 - Web Protocols T1102 - Web Service T1105 - Ingress Tool Transfer T1112 - Modify Registry T1132.001 - Standard Encoding T1137.001 - Office Template Macros T1140 - Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1190 - Exploit Public T1204.002 - Malicious File T1218.005 - Signed Binary Proxy Execution T1547.001 - Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1566.001 - Phishing T1566.002 - Spearphishing Link T1573.001 - Encrypted Channel T1573.002 - Encrypted Channel T1583.003 - Acquire Infrastructure T1583.006 - Web Services T1593 - Search Open Websites/Domains

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Known Names 30 entries

Sofacy Kaspersky

APT 28 Mandiant

Fancy Bear CrowdStrike

Sednit ESET

Group 74 Talos

TG-4127 SecureWorks

Pawn Storm Trend Micro

Tsar Team iSight

Strontium Microsoft

Swallowtail Symantec

SIG40 NSA

Snakemackerel iDefense

Iron Twilight SecureWorks

ATK 5 Thales

T-APT-12 Tencent

ITG05 IBM

TAG-0700 Recorded Future

UAC-0028 CERT-UA

FROZENLAKE Google

Grey-Cloud ?

Grizzly Steppe US Government

Forest Blizzard Microsoft

GruesomeLarch Volexity

BlueDelta Recorded Future

TA422 Proofpoint

Fighting Ursa Palo Alto

Blue Athena PWC

UAC-0063 CERT-UA

TAG-110 Recorded Future

G0007 MITRE

Observed Target Countries 52

Based on ETDA data — countries highlighted in red

Afghanistan Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Croatia Cyprus France Georgia Germany Hungary India Iran Iraq Italy Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Latvia Malaysia Mexico Mongolia Montenegro Netherlands Norway Pakistan Poland Romania Saudi Arabia Slovakia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Uganda UAE UK Ukraine USA Uzbekistan NATO APEC and OSCE

Description

APT 28 is a threat group that has been attributed to Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff by a July 2018 U.S. Department of Justice indictment. This group reportedly compromised the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2016 in an attempt to interfere with the U.S. presidential election. APT 28 has been active since at least January 2007. (FireEye) APT28 likely seeks to collect intelligence about Georgia’s security and political dynamics by targeting officials working for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense. APT28 has demonstrated interest in Eastern European governments and security organizations. These victims would provide the Russian government with an ability to predict policymaker intentions and gauge its ability to influence public opinion. APT28 appeared to target individuals affiliated with European security organizations and global multilateral institutions. The Russian government has long cited European security organizations like NATO and the OSCE as existential threats, particularly during periods of increased tension in Europe. Sofacy may be related to {{Hades}}, but it could be a false flag as well.

Tools Used 41

Cannon certutil CHERRYSPY Computrace CORESHELL DealersChoice Downdelph Drovorub Foozer GooseEgg Graphite HATVIBE Headlace HIDEDRV Impacket JHUHUGIT Koadic Komplex LoJax MASEPIE Mimikatz Nimcy OCEANMAP OLDBAIT PocoDown ProcDump PythocyDbg Responder Sedkit Sedreco SkinnyBoy SMBExec STEELHOOK USBStealer VPNFilter Winexe WinIDS X-Agent X-Tunnel Zebrocy Living off the Land

Operations 91

2011/2012 Back in 2011-2012, the group used a relatively tiny implant (known as “Sofacy” or SOURFACE) as its first stage malware. The implant shared certain similarities with the old Miniduke implants. This led us to believe the two groups were connected, at least to begin with, although it appears they parted ways in 2014, with the original Miniduke group switching to the CosmicDuke implant.

2013 At some point during 2013, the Sofacy group expanded its arsenal and added more backdoors and tools, including CORESHELL, SPLM (aka Xagent, aka CHOPSTICK), JHUHUGIT (which is built with code from the Carberp sources), AZZY (aka ADVSTORESHELL, NETUI, EVILTOSS, and spans across four to five generations) and a few others. We’ve seen quite a few versions of these implants and they were relatively widespread for a time.

2014-10 Operation “Pawn Storm” Target: Several foreign affairs ministries from around the globe. Method: Spear-phishing e-mails with links leading to an Adobe Flash exploit. https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/new-adobe-flash-zero-day-used-in-pawn-storm-campaign/

2014-12 Six-month-long cyberattack on the German parliament http://www.lse.co.uk/AllNews.asp?code=kwdwehme&headline=Russian_Hackers_Suspected_In_Cyberattack_On_German_Parliament

2015-02 U.S. military wives’ death threats Five military wives received death threats from a hacker group calling itself “{{Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA), United Cyber Caliphate (UCC)}}”, claiming to be an Islamic State affiliate, on February 10, 2015. This was later discovered to have been a false flag attack by Fancy Bear, when the victims’ email addresses were found to have been in the Fancy Bear phishing target list. https://www.apnews.com/4d174e45ef5843a0ba82e804f080988f

2015-04 Compromise of TV5Monde in France “A group calling itself the {{Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA), United Cyber Caliphate (UCC)}}, linked to so-called Islamic State, first claimed responsibility. But an investigation now suggests the attack was in fact carried out by a group of Russian hackers.” https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37590375

2015-04 Operation “Russian Doll” Method: Adobe Flash 0-day https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/04/probable_apt28_useo.html

2015-04 Compromise of the German Parliament (Bundestag) network https://netzpolitik.org/2015/digital-attack-on-german-parliament-investigative-report-on-the-hack-of-the-left-party-infrastructure-in-bundestag/

2015-07 Pawn Storm Update: Trend Micro Discovers New Java Zero-Day Exploit https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/pawn-storm-update-trend-micro-discovers-new-java-zero-day-exploit/

2015-08 EFF spoof, White House and NATO attack Method: zero-day exploit of Java, spoofing the Electronic Frontier Foundation and launching attacks on the White House and NATO. The hackers used a spear-phishing attack, directing emails to the false url electronicfrontierfoundation.org. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/new-spear-phishing-campaign-pretends-be-eff

2015-09 Bootstrapped Firefox Add-on https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2015/09/08/sofacy-recycles-carberp-and-metasploit-code/

2015-10 Attack on Bellingcat Eliot Higgins and other journalists associated with Bellingcat, a group researching the shoot down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, were targeted by numerous spear-phishing emails. The messages were fake Gmail security notices with Bit.ly and TinyCC shortened URLs. https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/pawn-storm-targets-mh17-investigation-team/

2015-10 Attack on Dutch Safety Board The group targeted the Dutch Safety Board, the body conducting the official investigation into the crash, before and after the release of the board’s final report. They set up fake SFTP and VPN servers to mimic the board’s own servers, likely for the purpose of spear-phishing usernames and passwords. https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/russia-tried-to-hack-mh17-inquiry-system/ar-BBmmuuT

2015-10 New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Used in Pawn Storm Campaign Targeting Foreign Affairs Ministries https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/new-adobe-flash-zero-day-used-in-pawn-storm-campaign/

2016-01 Pawn Storm Campaign Adds Turkey To Its List of Targets https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/pawn-storm-adds-turkey-list-targets/

2016-05 Pawn Storm Targets German Christian Democratic Union https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/pawn-storm-targets-german-christian-democratic-union/

2016-05 Russian cyber-espionage group hits Sanoma https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/russian_cyber-espionage_group_hits_sanoma/8919118

2016-06 Breach of Democratic National Committee Fancy Bear carried out spear-phishing attacks on email addresses associated with the Democratic National Committee in the first quarter of 2016. On March 10, phishing emails that were mainly directed at old email addresses of 2008 Democratic campaign staffers began to arrive. One of these accounts may have yielded up to date contact lists. The next day, phishing attacks expanded to the non-public email addresses of high level Democratic Party officials. Hillaryclinton.com addresses were attacked, but required two factor authentication for access. The attack redirected towards Gmail accounts on March 19th. Podesta’s Gmail account was breached the same day, with 50,000 emails stolen. Another sophisticated hacking group attributed to the Russian Federation, nicknamed {{APT 29, Cozy Bear, The Dukes}} appears to be a different agency, one more interested in traditional long-term espionage. https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/ https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-group-4127-targets-google-accounts

2016-06 “Exercise Noble Partner 2016” spear-phishing e-mail Method: Spear-phishing e-mail Target: USA government https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-new-sofacy-attacks-against-us-government-agency/

2016-08 Spear-phishing attack members of the Bundestag and multiple political parties such as Linken-faction leader Sahra Wagenknecht, Junge Union and the CDU of Saarland. Authorities feared that sensitive information could be gathered by hackers to later manipulate the public ahead of elections such as Germany’s next federal election which was due in September 2017. http://www.dw.com/en/hackers-lurking-parliamentarians-told/a-19564630

2016-08 World Anti-Doping Agency Method: Phishing emails sent to users of its database claiming to be official WADA communications requesting their login details. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russian-hackers-fancy-bear-likely-breached-olympic-drug-testing-agency-dnc-experts-say-1577508

2016-09 Operation “Komplex” https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-sofacys-komplex-os-x-trojan/

2016-10 Operation “DealersChoice” https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-dealerschoice-sofacys-flash-player-exploit-platform/ https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-let-ride-sofacy-groups-dealerschoice-attacks-continue/ The global reach that coincided with this focus on NATO and the Ukraine couldn’t be overstated. Our KSN data showed spear-phishing targets geo-located across the globe into 2017. AM, AZ, FR, DE, IQ, IT, KG, MA, CH, UA, US, VN DealersChoice emails, like the one above, that we were able to recover from third party sources provided additional targeting insight, and confirmed some of the targeting within our KSN data: TR, PL, BA, AZ, KR, LV, GE, LV, AU, SE, BE

2017 Early GAMEFISH backdoor Target: Europe. Method: They took advantage of the Syrian military conflict for thematic content and file naming “Trump’s_Attack_on_Syria_English.docx”. Again, this deployment was likely a part of their focus on NATO targets.

2017 Early LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/09/27/lojax-first-uefi-rootkit-found-wild-courtesy-sednit-group/

2017-02 Attack on Dutch ministries In February 2017, the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) of the Netherlands revealed that Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear had made several attempts to hack into Dutch ministries, including the Ministry of General Affairs, over the previous six months. Rob Bertholee, head of the AIVD, said on EenVandaag that the hackers were Russian and had tried to gain access to secret government documents. https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/russen-faalden-bij-hackpogingen-ambtenaren-op-nederlandse-ministeries~b77ff391/

2017-02 Russian Hackers ‘Fancy Bear’ Targeted French Presidential Candidate Macron https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ez35p7/russian-hackers-fancy-bear-targeted-french-presidential-candidate-macron

2017-02 IAAF Hack The officials of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) stated in April 2017 that its servers had been hacked by the “Fancy Bear” group. The attack was detected by cybersecurity firm Context Information Security which identified that an unauthorized remote access to IAAF’s servers had taken place on February 21. IAAF stated that the hackers had accessed the Therapeutic Use Exemption applications, needed to use medications prohibited by WADA. https://www.voanews.com/a/iaaf-hack-fancy-bears/3793874.html

2017-04 German elections They targeted the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Friedrich Ebert Foundation, groups that are associated with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and opposition Social Democratic Party, respectively. Fancy Bear set up fake email servers in late 2016 to send phishing emails with links to malware. https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/politics/election-risks-russia-linked-hackers-target-german-political-foundations/23569188.html?ticket=ST-2696734-GRHgtQukDIEXeSOwksXO-ap1

2017 Early SPLM backdoor Target: included defense related commercial and military organizations, and telecommunications. Targeting included TR, KZ, AM, KG, JO, UK, UZ Method: SPLM/CHOPSTICK/Xagent

2017-06 Heavy Zebrocy deployments Targeting profiles, spear-phish filenames, and lures carry thematic content related to visa applications and scanned images, border control administration, and various administrative notes. Targeting appears to be widely spread across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia: - Business accounting practices and standards - Science and engineering centers - Industrial and hydro chemical engineering and standards/certification - Ministry of foreign affairs - Embassies and consulates - National security and intelligence agencies - Press services - Translation services - NGO – family and social service - Ministry of energy and industry Method: the Zebrocy chain follows a pattern: spear-phish attachment -> compiled Autoit script (downloader) -> Zebrocy payload. In some deployments, we observed Sofacy actively developing and deploying a new package to a much smaller, specific subset of targets within the broader set.

2017-07 APT28 Targets Hospitality Sector, Presents Threat to Travelers https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/08/apt28-targets-hospitality-sector.html

2017-10 In this case it capitalized on the recent terrorist attack in New York City. The document itself is blank. Once opened, the document contacts a control server to drop the first stage of the malware, Seduploader, onto a victim’s system. https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/apt28-threat-group-adopts-dde-technique-nyc-attack-theme-in-latest-campaign/#sf151634298

2017-10 Russische hackers vallen vredesbeweging Pax aan https://www.human.nl/schimmenspel/russische-hackers-vallen-Nederlandse-vredesbeweging-aan.html

2018-01 Breach of the International Olympic Committee On January 10, 2018, the “Fancy Bears Hack Team” online persona leaked what appeared to be stolen International Olympic Committee (IOC) and U.S. Olympic Committee emails, dated from late 2016 to early 2017, were leaked in apparent retaliation for the IOC’s banning of Russian athletes from the 2018 Winter Olympics as a sanction for Russia’s systematic doping program. The attack resembles the earlier World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) leaks. It is not known whether the emails are fully authentic, because of Fancy Bear’s history of salting stolen emails with disinformation. The mode of attack was also not known, but was probably phishing. https://www.wired.com/story/russian-fancy-bears-hackers-release-apparent-ioc-emails/

2018-02 Attacks on Multiple Government Entities Target: Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the USA and Romania. Method: Spear-phishing using the subject line of Upcoming Defense events February 2018 and a sender address claiming to be from Jane’s 360 defense events. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-sofacy-attacks-multiple-government-entities/

2018-03 On March 12 and March 14, we observed the Sofacy group carrying out an attack on a European government agency involving an updated variant of DealersChoice. The updated DealersChoice documents used a similar process to obtain a malicious Flash object from a C2 server, but the inner mechanics of the Flash object contained significant differences in comparison to the original samples we analyzed. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-sofacy-uses-dealerschoice-target-european-government-agency/

2018-05 Breach of the Swedish Sports Confederation The Swedish Sports Confederation reported Fancy Bear was responsible for an attack on its computers, targeting records of athletes’ doping tests. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-doping/swedish-sports-body-says-anti-doping-unit-hit-by-hacking-attack-idUSKCN1IG2GN

2018-05 VPNFilter IoT botnet ThaiCERT's whitepaper: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9lkeenhveb3xbkq/Whitepaper VPNFilter IoT botnet seized by the FBI.pdf?dl=0

2018-06 This third campaign is consistent with two previously reported attack campaigns in terms of targeting: the targets were government organizations dealing with foreign affairs. In this case however the targets were in different geopolitical regions. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-sofacy-groups-parallel-attacks/

2018-08 Attacks on United States Conservative Groups The software company Microsoft reported in August 2018 that the group had attempted to steal data from political organizations such as the International Republican Institute and the Hudson Institute think tanks. The attacks were thwarted when Microsoft security staff won control of six net domains. In its announcement Microsoft advised that “we currently have no evidence these domains were used in any successful attacks before the DCU transferred control of them, nor do we have evidence to indicate the identity of the ultimate targets of any planned attack involving these domains”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45257081

2018-10 Operation “Dear Joohn” Target: The weaponized documents targeted several government entities around the globe, including North America, Europe, and a former USSR state. Method: new ‘Cannon’ Trojan https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/dear-joohn-sofacy-groups-global-campaign/ https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-sofacy-continues-global-attacks-wheels-new-cannon-trojan/

2018 BREXIT-themed lure document Brexit-themed bait documents to deliver the Zekapab (also known as Zebrocy) first-stage malware, sent on the same day the UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced the initial BREXIT draft agreement with the European Union (EU). “As the United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Theresa May announced the initial BREXIT draft agreement with the European Union (EU). https://www.accenture.com/t20181129T203820Z__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-90/Accenture-snakemackerel-delivers-zekapab-malware.pdf

2019-02 2019 Think Tank Attacks In February 2019, Microsoft announced that it had detected spear-phishing attacks from APT28, aimed at employees of the German Marshall Fund, Aspen Institute Germany, and the German Council on Foreign Relations. Hackers from the group purportedly sent phishing e-mails to 104 email addresses across Europe in an attempt to gain access to employer credentials and infect sites with malware. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/20/microsoft-says-it-has-found-another-russian-operation-targeting-prominent-think-tanks/?utm_term=.870ff11468ae

2019-02 Threat Campaign Likely Targeting NATO Members, Defense and Military Outlets iDefense assesses with moderate confidence that the actors may be targeting attendees and sponsors of the upcoming Underwater Defense & Security 2019 event occurring March 5-7, 2019, in Southampton, United Kingdom. This event draws attendees from government, military and private sector entities across the globe. https://www.accenture.com/t20190213T141124Z__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-94/Accenture-SNAKEMACKEREL-Threat-Campaign-Likely-Targeting-NATO-Members-Defense-and-Military-Outlets.pdf

2019-04 In April, security researchers in the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center discovered infrastructure of a known adversary communicating to several external devices. Further research uncovered attempts by the actor to compromise popular IoT devices (a VOIP phone, an office printer, and a video decoder) across multiple customer locations. https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/08/05/corporate-iot-a-path-to-intrusion/

2019-04 Analyzing Forest Blizzard’s custom post-compromise tool for exploiting CVE-2022-38028 to obtain credentials https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/04/22/analyzing-forest-blizzards-custom-post-compromise-tool-for-exploiting-cve-2022-38028-to-obtain-credentials/

2019-05 Since May 2019, Pawn Storm has been abusing compromised email addresses to send credential phishing spam. The majority of the compromised systems were from defense companies in the Middle East. Other targets included organizations in the transportation, utilities, and government sectors. https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cyber-attacks/probing-pawn-storm-cyberespionage-campaign-through-scanning-credential-phishing-and-more

2019-08 On August 20th, 2019, a new campaign was launched by the group targeting their usual victims – embassies of, and Ministries of Foreign Affairs in, Eastern European and Central Asian countries. https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/09/24/no-summer-vacations-zebrocy/

2019-08 APT28, one of Russia's military hacking units, was most likely responsible for hacking the email accounts of the Norwegian Parliament, the Norwegian police secret service (PST) said today. https://www.zdnet.com/article/norway-says-russian-hacking-group-apt28-is-behind-august-2020-parliament-hack/

2019-09 At least 16 national and international sporting and anti-doping organizations across three continents were targeted in these attacks which began September 16th, just before news reports about new potential action being taken by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Some of these attacks were successful, but the majority were not. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/10/28/cyberattacks-sporting-anti-doping/

2019-11 Beginning in early November of 2019, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army (GRU) launched a phishing campaign targeting Burisma Holdings, a holding company of energy exploration and production companies based in Kiev, Ukraine. https://cdn.area1security.com/reports/Area-1-Security-PhishingBarismaHoldings.pdf

2020-04 Microsoft has tied STRONTIUM to a newly uncovered pattern of Office365 credential harvesting activity aimed at US and UK organizations directly involved in political elections. https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/09/10/strontium-detecting-new-patters-credential-harvesting/

2020-05 Pawn Storm scanned IP addresses worldwide, including IP addresses from the defense industry in Europe, on TCP port 445 and 1433, likely in an attempt to find vulnerable SMB and SQL servers or brute force credentials. https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/20/l/pawn-storm-lack-of-sophistication-as-a-strategy.html

2020-08 New cyberattacks targeting U.S. elections https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/09/10/cyberattacks-us-elections-trump-biden/

2020-08 APT28 Delivers Zebrocy Malware Campaign using NATO Theme as Lure https://quointelligence.eu/2020/09/apt28-zebrocy-malware-campaign-nato-theme/

2020-11 A Zebra in Gopher's Clothing: Russian APT Uses COVID-19 Lures to Deliver Zebrocy https://www.intezer.com/blog/research/russian-apt-uses-covid-19-lures-to-deliver-zebrocy/

2021 France says Russian state hackers breached numerous critical networks https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/france-says-russian-state-hackers-breached-numerous-critical-networks/

2021-06 A not so Fancy game. Exploring the new “SkinnyBoy” Bear’s backdoor https://cluster25.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-05_FancyBear.pdf

2021-06 Hackers Exploited MSHTML Flaw to Spy on Government and Defense Targets https://thehackernews.com/2022/01/hackers-exploited-mshtml-flaw-to-spy-on.html

2021-09 Google notifies 14,000 Gmail users of targeted APT28 attacks https://therecord.media/google-notifies-14000-gmail-users-of-targeted-apt28-attacks/

2022-02 The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access https://www.volexity.com/blog/2024/11/22/the-nearest-neighbor-attack-how-a-russian-apt-weaponized-nearby-wi-fi-networks-for-covert-access/

2022-02 FancyBear/APT28, a threat actor attributed to Russia GRU, has conducted several large credential phishing campaigns targeting ukr.net users, UkrNet is a Ukrainian media company. https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/update-threat-landscape-ukraine/

2022-02 BlueDelta Exploits Ukrainian Government Roundcube Mail Servers to Support Espionage Activities https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/cta-2023-0620.pdf

2022-04 APT28 or Fancy Bear, a threat actor attributed to Russia GRU, was observed targeting users in Ukraine with a new variant of malware. https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/update-on-cyber-activity-in-eastern-europe/

2022-04 Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/a/pawn-storm-uses-brute-force-and-stealth.html

2022-06 The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is warning that Russian hacking groups are exploiting the Follina code execution vulnerability in new phishing campaigns to install the CredoMap malware and Cobalt Strike beacons. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-govt-hackers-hit-ukraine-with-cobalt-strike-credomap-malware/

2022-09 In the footsteps of the Fancy Bear: PowerPoint mouse-over event abused to deliver Graphite implants https://blog.cluster25.duskrise.com/2022/09/23/in-the-footsteps-of-the-fancy-bear-powerpoint-graphite/

2023-03 TA422’s Dedicated Exploitation Loop—the Same Week After Week https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/ta422s-dedicated-exploitation-loop-same-week-after-week

2023-04 Hackers use fake ‘Windows Update’ guides to target Ukrainian govt https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-use-fake-windows-update-guides-to-target-ukrainian-govt/

2023-04 GRU’s BlueDelta Targets Key Networks in Europe with Multi-Phase Espionage Campaigns https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/CTA-RU-2024-0530.pdf

2023-08 ITG05 operations leverage Israel-Hamas conflict lures to deliver Headlace malware https://securityintelligence.com/x-force/itg05-ops-leverage-israel-hamas-conflict-lures-to-deliver-headlace-malware/

2023-09 Ukraine says an energy facility disrupted a Fancy Bear intrusion https://therecord.media/ukraine-energy-facility-cyberattack-fancy-bear-email

2023-09 Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/russian-apt-fighting-ursa-exploits-cve-2023-233397/

2023-09 Operation “Steal-It” https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/steal-it-campaign

2023-09 Operation “RoundPress” https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/operation-roundpress/

2023-12 Russian hackers exploiting Outlook bug to hijack Exchange accounts https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/russian-hackers-exploiting-outlook-bug-to-hijack-exchange-accounts/

2023-12 Russian military hackers target Ukraine with new MASEPIE malware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-military-hackers-target-ukraine-with-new-masepie-malware/

2024-02 Russian hackers hijack Ubiquiti routers to launch stealthy attacks https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-hackers-hijack-ubiquiti-routers-to-launch-stealthy-attacks/

2024-03 Ongoing ITG05 operations leverage evolving malware arsenal in global campaigns https://securityintelligence.com/x-force/itg05-leverages-malware-arsenal/

2024-03 Fighting Ursa Luring Targets With Car for Sale https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/fighting-ursa-car-for-sale-phishing-lure/

2024-03 APT28 hackers use Signal chats to launch new malware attacks on Ukraine https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apt28-hackers-use-signal-chats-to-launch-new-malware-attacks-on-ukraine/

2024 Early MITRE: Russian APT28's LameHug, a Pilot for Future AI Cyber-Attacks https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mitre-russian-apt28-lamehug/

2024-05 Poland says Russian military hackers target its govt networks https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/poland-says-russian-military-hackers-target-its-govt-networks/

2024-07 Ukrainian Institutions Targeted Using HATVIBE and CHERRYSPY Malware https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/ukrainian-institutions-targeted-using.html

2024-07 Russia-Aligned TAG-110 Targets Asia and Europe with HATVIBE and CHERRYSPY https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/CTA-RU-2024-1121.pdf

2024-09 German Cyber Agency Investigating APT28 Phishing Campaign https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/german-cyber-agency-investigating-apt28-phishing-campaign-a-26234

2024-09 French Cyber Agency Warns of APT28 Hacks Against Think Tanks https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/french-cyber-agency-warns-apt28-hacks-against-think-tanks-a-26265

2024-09 UAC-0063: Cyber Espionage Operation Expanding from Central Asia https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/businessinsights/uac-0063-cyber-espionage-operation-expanding-from-central-asia

2024-10 Double-Tap Campaign: Russia-nexus APT possibly related to APT28 conducts cyber espionage on Central Asia and Kazakhstan diplomatic relations https://blog.sekoia.io/double-tap-campaign-russia-nexus-apt-possibly-related-to-apt28-conducts-cyber-espionage-on-central-asia-and-kazakhstan-diplomatic-relations/

2025-01 Russia-Aligned TAG-110 Targets Tajikistan with Macro-Enabled Word Templates https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/cta-2025-0522.pdf