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ESET researchers observed the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 embedding a decoy request for guidance on building a nuclear weapon in a comment inside a VBScript used in the early stages of an attack on a target in Ukraine. The comment was meant to trigger the safety guardrails of an LLM-powered code scanner so that it stops inspecting the f…
ESET reports that Russia-linked actors used the decentralized Yggdrasil mesh network to hide command-and-control traffic during an attack on a Ukrainian grain logistics company in July 2025. ESET says this is the first documented use of the technology by a state-linked group. The intrusion began with a phishing email sent in a campaign ag…
ESET documented the evolution of MATCHBOIL, a custom C downloader used by the Russia-aligned cyberespionage group UAC-0099. Samples span April 2024 to April 2026, although CERT-UA first documented the malware in August 2025. Each iteration became more sophisticated, with new obfuscation, sandbox checks and persistence methods. All victims…
ESET reports that UAC-0099 (aka Earth Sirrush) gained initial access to a Ukrainian logistics company on July 16, 2025, through a spear-phishing email with a malicious attachment. The group then handed access to Sandworm, which carried out a data-wiping attack on September 17, 2025, more than two months after the initial foothold. UAC-009…
ESET documents an intrusion at a Ukrainian grain logistics company in which UAC-0099 gained initial access on July 16th, 2025 via a spearphishing email with a malicious attachment, then handed access off to Sandworm. Sandworm carried out a data-wiping attack on September 17th, 2025. A day after initial access, the attackers deployed Mythi…
