Security News > 2020 > February > Gamaredon APT Improves Toolset to Target Ukraine Government, Military

The Gamaredon advanced persistent threat group has been supercharging its operations lately, improving its toolset and ramping up attacks on Ukrainian national security targets.

Vitali Kremez, head of SentinelLabs, said in research released on Wednesday that he has been tracking an uptick in Gamaredon cyberattacks on Ukrainian military and security institutions that started in December.

"Based on SentinelLabs visibility into some of the affected victims, APT Gamaredon affected a large disposition of victim across Ukrainian separatist line with more than five thousand unique Ukrainian entities affected for the past months," Kremez wrote.

In examining the campaign, SentinelLabs found that Gamaredon has improved its toolset.

"Their operations have impacted more than five thousand unique Ukrainian entities in the past few months." He added, "This ability to efficiently integrate cyber-offense measures into the actual battlefield of a traditional or asymmetric warfare model has been for years tested in the long-term military conflict unfolding in Eastern Ukraine since 2014.".

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