Continued cyber activity in Eastern Europe observed by TAG

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> The app is distributed under the guise of performing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against a set of Russian websites.

> Based on our analysis, we believe that the StopWar app was developed by pro-Ukrainian developers and was the inspiration for what Turla actors based their fake CyberAzov DoS app off of.

So Ukrainians are creating DoS apps to attack Russian websites, Russians then create fake versions of those apps that actually DoS Ukrainian websites.

Ain't living in the cyberpunk future fun and exciting?

I assumed the main purpose of the app was exfiltrating information because they said it only sent one single GET request, not enough to DDoS anything. They don't say that, though.

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