Pro-Russia group exploits Roundcube zero-day in attacks on European government emails

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Pro-Russia group exploits Roundcube zero-day in attacks on European government emails
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With this zero-day, researchers say the 'scrappy' group is stepping up its operations

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Tracked as CVE-2023-5631, the zero-day was found in the free and open-source webmail client Roundcube. ESET reported the vulnerability to the Roundcube team on October 12 and a patch was developed two days later.that aimed to spoof the Microsoft Outlook team.

"Despite the low sophistication of the group's toolset, it is a threat to governments in Europe because of its persistence, very regular running of phishing campaigns, and because a significant number of internet-facing applications are not regularly updated although they are known to contain vulnerabilities," ESET

For example, researchers observed Winter Vivern exploiting CVE-2020-35730 as recently as August and September, despite the vulnerability being three years old.

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