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The Russian Hacker Group Sandworm is Back: New Kapeka Malware Secretly Infecting Systems Since 2022
Novel malware recently found in Estonia links the Sandworm hacker group to cyberattacks in Europe, and may be a spillover from the Russia-Ukraine War.
A similar attack hit Kyiv in December of 2016 leading to mass power outages and later reports showed that the intention was to physically damage critical electrical infrastructure. "Due to the group's history of aggressive use of network attack capabilities across political and military contexts, APT44 presents a persistent, high severity threat to governments and critical infrastructure operators globally where Russian national interests intersect." Regular calls by politicians to undermine encryption like the EU Chat Control proposal or the US FISA reform go in the opposite direction: Such legislation destroys the security and confidentiality of the communication of every citizen.
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