Russian hackers use a blast from the Windows past to launch cyberattacks
Russian hackers use a blast from the Windows past to launch cyberattacks WinRAR is being abused to quickly wipe the contents of a target disk When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Russian state-sponsored hackers have wiped data from devices belonging to Ukrainian state networks thanks to poorly protected VPNs, andmalwarethat abuses popular archiving program WinRAR. The Ukrainian Government Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) recently claimed a Russian threat actor, thought to be from the Sandworm group, managed to compromise Ukrainian state networks by using compromised VPN accounts that did not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) set up....