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Reportseverity: Medium2022-09-15

Cisco Talos reports Gamaredon info-stealer campaign against Ukrainian government

published by Cisco Talos
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GamaredonRU · RussiaAPT

Russian state-sponsored intrusion set publicly attributed by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to FSB officers based in Russian-occupied Crimea. The longest-running publicly-documented intrusion…

Summary

Cisco Talos documented an ongoing Gamaredon espionage campaign running through August 2022 that targeted Ukrainian government agencies with malicious LNK files delivered inside RAR archives. The infection chain relied on PowerShell and VBScript loaders to deploy a custom information stealer alongside the GammaLoad and GammaSteel implants, with lure themes referencing the Russian invasion.

Tags

espionageukraineinfo-stealergammaload

Primary source

blog.talosintelligence.com

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