{"id":142557,"date":"2022-07-20T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/russian-hackers-use-fake-ddos-app-to-infect-pro-ukrainian-activists"},"modified":"2022-07-20T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:42:59","slug":"russian-hackers-use-fake-ddos-app-to-infect-pro-ukrainian-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/russian-hackers-use-fake-ddos-app-to-infect-pro-ukrainian-activists","title":{"rendered":"Russian hackers use fake DDoS app to infect pro-Ukrainian activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-hackers-use-fake-ddos-app-to-infect-pro-ukrainian-activists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), whose primary goal is to defend Google users from state-sponsored attacks, said today that Russian-backed threat groups are still focusing their attacks on Ukrainian organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In a report regarding recent cyber activity in Eastern Europe, Google TAG security engineer Billy Leonard revealed that hackers part of the Turla <a href=\"https:\/\/malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de\/actor\/turla_group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russian APT group<\/a> have also been spotted deploying their first Android malware.<\/p>\n<p>They camouflaged it as a DDoS attack tool and hosted it on cyberazov[.]com, a domain spoofing the Ukrainian Azov Regiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), whose primary goal is to defend Google users from state-sponsored attacks, said today that Russian-backed threat groups are still focusing their attacks on Ukrainian organizations. In a report regarding recent cyber activity in Eastern Europe, Google TAG security engineer Billy Leonard revealed that hackers part of the Turla Russian APT [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}