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The group said it has nothing to do with Evil Corp, politics, or special services like the FSB and FBI.

Hackers used a phishing scam to convince victims to open the malicious documents.

Since the sanctions hit, Evil Corp used various ransomware variants such as WestedLocker, Macaw Locker and Phoenix CryptoLocker.

The data-extortion gang began selling data allegedly stolen from Novartis on their extortion marketplace.

Last week, Atlassian released a fix to address the vulnerability.

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has taken down 41 domains used by the hackers in their C&C-infrastructure.

Specifically, the attacks targeted embedded microcontrollers such as the Intel Management Engine or Intel Converged Security Management Engine.

The researchers believe that multiple threat actors from China are using this zero-day exploit.

The goal of the attacks is to infect networks belonging to Ukrainian government agencies with the Cobalt Strike Beacon malware.