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Besides Ukraine, the group was observed targeting government institutions and think tanks in the US and the EU involved in foreign policy.

Cyclops Blink has been circulating since June 2019 and appears to be a successor of another Sandworm botnet VPNFilter.

Threat actors are distributing phishing messages warning users that someone attempted to log-in on their device from Russia.

Since 2014, the group has carried out over 5,000 cyberattacks against Ukraine.

On April 5, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Hydra and a Russian crypto exchange Garantex.

The company said that some of the company’s employees were tricked by social engineering attack.

A Meta spokesman said that hashtags were blocked because of automated systems that scan for violent imagery on Facebook and Instagram.

The company did not disclose any information about the nature of the cyber incident it has suffered.

Both defendants were released on bail, subject to certain conditions.

The researchers noticed some code overlaps between AcidRain and another wiper malware, VPNFilter.