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The Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security are calling out an unspecified “sophisticated cyber actor” Thursday for using malware to launch cyberattacks against targets in India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Russia and Ukraine. The malware, which the military’s Cyber Command has dubbed “SlothfulMedia,” is an information-stealer capable of logging keystrokes of victims and modifying files, according to an analysis shared early with CyberScoop. The agencies shared the malware sample on the malware-sharing repository on VirusTotal Thursday afternoon. The malware “is in use in successful ongoing campaigns,” a Cyber Command spokesperson told CyberScoop. The DOD and DHS did not say what threat group or nation-state might be running the malware campaign. The report does not mention specific targets, either. It’s the latest Pentagon effort to expose malware used by well-resourced hackers around the world. Cyber Command, which first began exposing state-backed hacking campaigns by sharing malware samples with the public in 2018, has previously exposed foreign […]

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