Russia's Sandworm Hackers Have Been Targeting Ukrainian Military Android Devices
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A new advisory from the US and its Five Eyes allies, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, warns that military hackers from the notorious hacking unit within Russia’s military intelligence directorate known as Sandworm have been targeting Ukrainian soldiers’ mobile devices in a bid to steal sensitive battlefield information that could aid the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.
The hackers have been targeting Android devices in Ukraine with a new malicious framework named Infamous Chisel. The toolkit provides hackers backdoor access through a service hidden in The Onion Router (Tor) anonymity network, which lets them scan local files, intercept network traffic, and exfiltrate data.
Advisories from the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and the US Cybersecurity and In…
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