Kazakhstan-based hackers targeting gov’t websites in Central Asia, Cisco says

Hackers believed to be based in Kazakhstan are targeting other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States in a wide-ranging espionage campaign, according to new research. Cisco’s Talos group has spent months tracking YoroTrooper — a hacking group focused on espionage that first emerged in June 2022. Researchers said the group’s targets, use of Kazakh

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