Government Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-UA warns of emails with malware attachments. According to the State Service for Special Communications, this time the attackers remembered the topic of COVID-19.

Such letters contain an attachment in the form of an XLS document Aid request COVID-19-04_5_22. xls. When it is opened, GraphSteel and GrimPlant malware is downloaded to the computer, and attackers get access to the basic information of the attacked.

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According to experts, dangerous letters are sent from a compromised account of an employee of a state body of Ukraine.

Activity associated with group activity UAC-0056.

The same group was involved in several cyberattacks in March. Then the attackers parasitized on the topics of increasing the level of information security among Ukrainians and wage arrears.

Earlier, the State Service for Special Communications announced that Russian hackers are increasingly attacking ordinary Ukrainians.. In addition, the number of information and psychological operations against the population of Ukraine in social networks and instant messengers is also growing..