Phishing attacks on Ukrainian state bodies spreading diverse malware strains have not been a rarity throughout 2022. Hard on the heels of a phishing cyber attack against Ukraine distributing DolphinCape malware, another phishing campaign is causing a stir in the cyber threat arena. On December 18, 2022, CERT-UA researchers issued the latest alert tracked as […]
Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, SOC Prime stays on the frontline helping Ukraine and its allies defend from russian aggression. On December 8, 2022, CERT-UA researchers received information from the cybersecurity department of the state Railway Transport Organization of Ukraine “Ukrzaliznytsia” about the distribution of phishing emails impersonating the State Emergency Service […]
Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies leveraging info-stealers and malicious payloads have been causing a stir in the cyber threat arena. In the latest cyber attack on the Ukrainian organization, threat actors have applied a diverse offensive toolkit, including the Vidar info-stealer and the notorious Cobalt […]
The russia-linked Armageddon APT aka Gamaredon or UAC-0010 has been launching a series of cyber attacks on Ukraine since the outbreak of the global cyber war. On November 8, 2022, CERT-UA released the latest alert detailing the ongoing spearphishing campaign of this russia-backed cyber-espionage hacking collective, in which adversaries massively distribute spoofed emails masquerading as […]
In May 2022, Cuba ransomware maintainers resurfaced marking their loud entrance into the cyber threat arena by leveraging a novel custom remote access Trojan called ROMCOM (or RomCom) RAT. On October 22, 2010, CERT-UA warned the global cyber defender community of the ongoing phishing campaigns targeting Ukrainian officials with the email sender masquerading as the […]
On August 30 and 31, 2022, CERT-UA revealed a burst of adversary activity massively distributing phishing emails among Ukrainian, Austrian, and German organizations. According to the corresponding CERT-UA#5252 alert, hackers exploit the email attachment vector spreading the notorious AgentTesla info-stealing malware. The malicious activity can be attributed to the behavior patterns of the hacking collective […]
With the outbreak of the global cyber war, the malicious activity of the Armageddon cyber-espionage group aka Gamaredon or UAC-0010 has been in the limelight in the cyber threat arena targeting Ukrainian state bodies. The hacking collective launched a series of phishing cyber-attacks, including campaigns in May spreading GammaLoad.PS1_v2 malware and in April 2022. On […]
In spring 2022, the notorious Russian nation-backed cyber espionage group Armageddon, also tracked as UAC-0010, launched a series of targeted phishing cyber-attacks against Ukrainian and European state bodies. On July 26, 2022, CERT-UA issued a series of new cybersecurity alerts warning the global cyber defender community of a wave of novel phishing campaigns by these […]
Information stealing attacks that leverage the phishing email attack vector against Ukrainian organizations are currently on the rise, such as the malicious campaign less than one week ago spreading AgentTesla spyware and targeting Ukrainian state bodies. On July 25, 2022, CERT-UA released a new heads-up warning the global cyber defender community of an ongoing email […]
Due to the global cyber war fueled by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the attacks in the cyber domain against Ukrainian government entities are continuously on the rise. A week after the phishing campaign by the UAC-0056 group delivering Cobalt Strike Beacon, another cyber-attack targeting Ukrainian officials using information-stealing malware comes on the scene. On […]