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  • February 13, 2023
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The government computer emergency response team CERT-UA, operating under State Special Communications, has warned of a new cyberattack on institutions and organizations in Ukraine using the Remote Utilities

The government computer emergency response team CERT-UA, operating under State Special Communications, has warned of a new cyberattack on institutions and organizations in Ukraine using the Remote Utilities program.

This is stated in the department’s statement, reports Ukrinform.

CERT-UA experts recorded the mass distribution of dangerous e-mails that appeared to come from the Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Device. They have the topic “RE: Security Critical Update” and an attachment in the form of a RAR archive called “KB5017371 security system update.rar”.

The message states that the archive contains a fake image “Important instruction to read.jpg” and a split archive containing the executable “KB5017371.exe”.

Downloading, extracting and running the archive content will install a legitimate Remote Utilities program on your computer. It provides confidential remote access to the device to third parties.

Detected activity is tracked by the identifier UAC-0096.

As reported by Ukrinform, Ukraine repels up to 40 powerful cyber attacks.

Source: Ukrinform

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