Bill Toulas reports:
The Russian APT28 hacking group (aka ‘Strontium’ or ‘Fancy Bear’) has been targeting government entities, businesses, universities, research institutes, and think tanks in France since the second half of 2021.
The threat group, which is considered part of Russia’s military intelligence service GRU, was recently linked to the exploitation of CVE-2023-38831, a remote code execution vulnerability in WinRAR, and CVE-2023-23397, a zero-day privilege elevation flaw in Microsoft Outlook.
Read more at Bleeping Computer.