Russian Cyber Group APT28 Targets Ukraine Government with Fake Windows Update Emails

The APT28 group has been spotted spreading rogue emails to Ukrainian government agencies. The infamous Advanced Persistence Threat (APT) gang is leading a campaign to flood its targets with deceptive messages about Windows updates in a bid to spread data-stealing malware on compromised machines. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), threat actors sent fake Windows Update emails throughout April, spoofing the email addresses of government agencies’ system admini