Russia-backed hacker group Gamaredon attacking Ukraine with info-stealing malware

The Russian-sponsored hacker group known as Gamaredon continues to attack Ukrainian organizations and remains one of the “key cyber threats” for Ukraine’s cyberspace, according to a report the Ukrainian government published Wednesday. 

Ukraine claims that Gamaredon operates from the city of Sevastopol in Russia-occupied Crimea, but acts on orders from the FSB Center for Information Security in Moscow. The group began operations in June 2013, just months before Russia forcibly annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.

In its recent campaigns …

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