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#9 The Hacker News general August 28, 2026 at 08:20 UTC

APT28-Linked HOOKEDGE Backdoor Targets European Government and Diplomatic Organizations

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Recorded Future's Insikt Group linked a campaign deploying a newly identified Windows backdoor called HOOKEDGE to APT28 (Russia's GRU-linked threat actor), targeting government and diplomatic organizations in Romania, Spain, and Türkiye between September 2025 and April 2026. HOOKEDGE is distributed as a lightweight Windows batch script, representing a low-footprint persistence mechanism suited to stealthy espionage operations. European government defenders should treat APT28's shift to novel, undocumented tooling as an indicator of continued operational adaptation.

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