Gorbag APT group hits Ukrainian courts and city councils with self-deleting malware

ESET has been tracking a Russia-aligned group it calls Gorbag, which has been breaking into Ukrainian organizations since at least February 2025 using spearphishing attachments and a stealer that erases itself once the data is gone. Spearphishing email message from a compromised email sender (Source: ESET) Every target ESET identified sits in Ukraine. About a quarter are law enforcement and justice bodies, another qu…

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