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Midnight Blizzard hacking group hijacks RDP proxies to launch malware attacks

  • Midnight Blizzard, an advanced persistent threat group sponsored by the Russian government, has launched a large-scale spear-phishing attack targeting governments, military organizations, and academic researchers in the West.
  • The group exploited red team methodologies and anonymization tools to exfiltrate sensitive data from their targets' IT infrastructure.
  • The attack utilized a rogue Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and a Python-based tool called PyRDP, with approximately 200 high-profile victims targeted in a single day.
  • The victims included government and military organizations, think tanks, academic researchers, and entities associated with the Ukrainian government and the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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