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The Russian state-backed Star Blizzard hacker group has ramped up operations with new, constantly evolving malware families (NoRobot, MaybeRobot) deployed in complex delivery chains that start with ClickFix social engineering attacks. Also known as ColdRiver, UNC4057, and Callisto, the Star Blizzard threat group abandoned the LostKeys malware less than a week after researchers published their analysis and leveraged the *Robot malicious tools "more aggressively" than in any of its previous campaigns. In a report in May, the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said that it observed the LostKeys malware being leveraged in attacks on Western governments, journalists, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations. The malware was used for espionage purposes, its capabilities including…

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