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A hacking group linked by researchers to the Kremlin has switched its tactics as part of a new attack against the United States government. A spear phishing email from the Sofacy group (also known as APT28) sent to a "US government entity" from a potentially compromised account belonging to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of …

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  1. a_yank_lurker

    rtf

    Would turning on show file extension mitigate against this attack? RTF is format that I believe has been deprecated by MS. Or could blocking all files with extension '.rtf' stop this?

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  2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

    "Government entities"

    Do they come with cavernous voices and hair-raising moans?

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