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New Chinese Malware Targeted Russia's Largest Nuclear Submarine Designer A threat actor believed to be working on behalf of Chinese state-sponsored interests was recently observed targeting a Russia-based defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. The phishing attack, which singled out a general director working at the Rubin Design Bureau, leveraged the infamous "Royal Road" Rich Text Format (RTF) weaponizer to deliver a previously undocumented Windows backdoor dubbed " PortDoor," according to Cybereason's Nocturnus threat intell...

By Kevin Townsend on April 30, 2021 Researchers at Cybereason say they have discovered an undocumented malware targeting the Russian military sector and bearing the hallmarks of originating in China if not being Chinese state sponsored. The researchers had been tracking malicious RTFs generated by the RoyalRoad weaponizer (aka the 8.t Dropper/RTF exploit builder), which is known to be often used by Chinese state actors. One sample was found dropping previously unknown malware, that the Cybereason researchers have now called PortDoor. According to the phishing lure associated with the malici...

Russia – Ancor Group acquires IT search specialist Pribor 05 March 2021 Russian staffing firm Ancor Group announced it has acquired Pribor, a search and selection firm focused on IT specialists. Pribor is also based in Russia. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. However, Forbes reports that a source within Forbes who is familiar with the negotiations knows that the deal was worth USD 5 million. Pribor will remain an autonomous unit within the Ancor group of companies.  Pribor’s ‘Selection’ system is a smart system for finding programmers, testers, ana...