Shhh… Sandworm Team Turned Microsoft Windows Flaw into Russian Cyber-espionage Campaign

Shhh… Sandworm Team Turned Microsoft Windows Flaw into Russian Cyber-espionage Campaign

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A group of hackers known as the “Sandworm Team”, allegedly from Russia, has found a fundamental flaw in Microsoft Windows (a zero-day vulnerability impacting all supported versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server 2008 and 2012) and turned it into a Russian cyber-espionage campaign targeting NATO, European Union, telecommunications and energy sectors – by pulling emails and documents off computers from NATO, Ukrainian government groups, Western European government officials, and also the energy sector and telecommunications firms, according to new research from iSight Partners, a Dallas-based cybersecurity firm.

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Photo credit: iSight Partners.

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