Davey Winder is a technology journalist who covers cybersecurity news and research. He’s covered everything from the true story behind the hacking of Donald Trump’s nude photos to a record-breaking ransomware payment of $75 million.
The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team has issued a new security warning after discovering a cyber attack campaign carried out by the APT28 threat group, also known as Fancy Bear . This group is thought, with a high degree of confidence, to be affiliated with Russia n military intelligence operations. Here’s what we know so far and what you need to watch out for if you think you might be at risk of being targeted.
In the case of this cyber attack campaign, CERT-UA said that ticking the checkbox asking for confirmation in response to the “I am not a robot” question will initiate a malicious PowerShell command instruction to the user’s clipboard. OK, so the most important point to be made here is that the cyber attack campaign in question appears to be highly targeted at local government workers in Ukraine. That immediately filters out a lot of the concern that everyone else might have. However, importantly, that doesn’t mean that the same techniques will not be used by other threat actors now that the methodology is out there and apparently fooling some victims. Therefore, you still need to be aware of the threat and how to mitigate it.
These include: pressing a Win+R combo to open the command prompt, pressing a Win+V combo to paste the malware payload execution instruction, and finally the need to press enter to actually execute it and install the malware itself. That’s a lot of steps, requiring a lot of trust, from the user. Don’t be that trustworthy. Period. Ask yourself, when have I ever been asked to do something like this before? I’d bet my house that the answer to that, for 99.9% of people is, erm, never.
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