Ukraine war blurs lines between cyber-crims and state-sponsored attackers
A change in the deployment of the RomCom malware strain has illustrated the blurring distinction between cyberattacks motivated by money and those fueled by geopolitics, in this case Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, according to Trend Micro analysts.
Outside of Ukraine, targets included a local government group helping Ukrainian refugees, a defense company in Europe, IT service providers in the US and the EU, and a bank in South America. There also were campaigns against people attending various events including the Masters of Digital and Munich Security conferences.
While RomCom receives upgrades, its modular architecture remains. Three components - a loader, a network component to communicate with the command-and-control server, and a worker component that runs the actions on the victim's system - do its dirty work.
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