{"id":213608,"date":"2025-05-09T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/google-links-new-lostkeys-data-theft-malware-to-russian-cyberspies"},"modified":"2025-05-09T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:11:08","slug":"google-links-new-lostkeys-data-theft-malware-to-russian-cyberspies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/google-links-new-lostkeys-data-theft-malware-to-russian-cyberspies","title":{"rendered":"Google links new LostKeys data theft malware to Russian cyberspies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-links-new-lostkeys-data-theft-malware-to-russian-cyberspies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year, the Russian state-backed ColdRiver hacking group has been using new LostKeys malware to steal files in espionage attacks targeting Western governments, journalists, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the United Kingdom and Five Eyes allies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/uk-and-allies-expose-russian-fsb-hacking-group-sanction-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">linked<\/a> ColdRiver to Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB), the country\u2019s counterintelligence and internal security service.<\/p>\n<p>Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) first observed LostKeys being \u201cdeployed in highly selective cases\u201d in January as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/tag\/ClickFix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ClickFix<\/a> social engineering attacks, where the threat actors trick targets into running malicious PowerShell scripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the year, the Russian state-backed ColdRiver hacking group has been using new LostKeys malware to steal files in espionage attacks targeting Western governments, journalists, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations. In December, the United Kingdom and Five Eyes allies linked ColdRiver to Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB), the country\u2019s counterintelligence and internal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213608","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}