Google finds Russian state hackers replacing burned malware with new tools

A Russian government-backed hacking group known as Coldriver has developed three new malware strains to replace a tool exposed earlier this year, according to new research by Google.

In a new report Google’s threat intelligence team said the Moscow-linked hackers, also tracked as Star Blizzard, Callisto and UNC4057, began deploying new malicious tools within five days of the company’s May disclosure of the group’s LostKeys malware.

Since then, Google has not observed any further use of LostKeys, but instead detected new malware being deployed “more aggressively than any previous campaigns” linked to Coldriver.

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