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Users in Russia have been the target of a previously undocumented Android post-compromise spyware called LianSpy since at least 2021. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, which discovered the malware in March 2024, noted its use of Yandex Cloud, a Russian cloud service, for command-and-control communications as a way to avoid having a dedicated infrastructure and evade detection.

A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.In a statement to BleepingComputer, Yandex said their systems were not hacked, and a former employee leaked the source code repository.