Security News > 2020 > October > Russian Turla hackers breach European government organization
Russian-speaking hacking group Turla has hacked into the systems of an undisclosed European government organization according to a new Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence report.
Government entities are advised by ACTI to check network logs for indicators of compromise included at the end of the report and to build detections capable of blocking future Turla attacks.
The Turla group has been active since 1996 and the main suspect behind attacks targeting the Pentagon and NASA, the U.S. Central Command, the Finnish Foreign Ministry, and, earlier this year, Eastern European Ministries of Foreign Affairs.
In May, ESET spotted a new version of the ComRAT backdoor controlled by Turla using the Gmail web interface in data theft attacks that targeted governmental institutions.
Kaspersky shared info on what is believed to be another Turla malware "With a medium-to-low level of confidence", a RAT variant dubbed COMpfun controlled using uncommon HTTP status codes deployed in attacks against European diplomatic entities.
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