Security News > 2023 > August > GRU hackers attack Ukrainian military with new Android malware
Hackers working for the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, more commonly known as the GRU, have been targeting Android devices in Ukraine with a new malicious framework named 'Infamous Chisel.
The malware was first highlighted in a warning from the Ukrainian Security Service earlier this month about efforts from the Sandworm hacking group to penetrate military command systems.
The NCSC describes Infamous Chisel as "a collection of components which enable persistent access to an infected Android device over the Tor network, and which periodically collates and exfiltrates victim information from compromised devices."
The malware targets Android devices and scans them to locate information and applications related to the Ukrainian military to send it to the attacker's servers.
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