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Back in 2021, India was embroiled in controversy when reports emerged suggesting that the government had employed Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to execute surveillance of numerous journalists, activists, and politicians.

BleepingComputer reports that French government agencies, universities, businesses, research institutes, and think tanks had their networks compromised by Russian state-sponsored threat operation APT28, also known as Fancy Bear and Strontium, in cyberespionage attacks that commenced during the last six months of 2021.

ESET researchers have revealed that the Winter Vivern Russian hacking group has exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail, targeting various European government entities and think tanks.

The bug in the popular email service Roundcube was patched after being exploited by Russia- and Belarus-aligned cyberespionage gang Winter Vivern.

State-sponsored cyber espionage actors from Russia and China continue to target WinRAR users with various info-stealing and backdoor malware, as a patching lag plagues the software's footprint.

State-supported hackers from Russia and China took advantage of a fixed vulnerability in WinRAR archiving utility for Windows, raising concerns among cybersecurity specialists.

Attacks exploiting WinRAR zero-day linked to Russian, Chinese hackers TechCrunch reports that numerous Russian and Chinese state-backed hacking operations have been leveraging an already patched WinRAR vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38831, in recent attacks.

Google security researchers say hackers, including the notorious Russian hacking unit Sandworm, are exploiting the WinRAR zero-day bug.

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) found Russian and Chinese state-backed hackers exploiting a patched WinRAR vulnerability.

Two senior European intelligence officers claimed in comments to Kyiv Post that Killnet works on behalf of the Russian government.