{"id":929129,"date":"2025-05-08T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=929129"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:58:33","slug":"google-warns-against-russia-based-hacking-group-using-new-malware-to-steal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/08\/google-warns-against-russia-based-hacking-group-using-new-malware-to-steal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Google warns against Russia-based hacking group using new malware to steal data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has issued a warning about a Russia-based hacking group, known as COLDRIVER. The Alphabet-owned company claims that this hacking group is using a newly identified malware called LOSTKEYS to steal data. The tech giant claims that this malware, which was tracked in multiple attacks this year, possesses the capability to steal files matching a predefined list of extensions and located in specific directories, as well as transmit system information and running processes back to the attacker. GTIG also noted that LOSTKEYS signifies a new development in the hacking group&#8217;s toolkit, which is known for its credential phishing campaigns targeting high-profile organisations such as NATO governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as well as former intelligence and diplomatic officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has issued a warning about a Russia-based hacking group, known as COLDRIVER. The Alphabet-owned company claims that this hacking group is using a newly identified malware called LOSTKEYS to steal data. The tech giant claims that this malware, which was tracked in multiple attacks this year, possesses the capability to steal files matching a predefined list of extensions and located in specific directories, as well as transmit system information and running processes back to the attacker. GTIG also noted that LOSTKEYS signifies a new development in the hacking group&#8217;s toolkit, which is known for its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}