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NOKKI Almost Ties the Knot with DOGCALL: Reaper Group Uses New Malware to Deploy RAT
Unit 42 links NOKKI malware to North Korea's Reaper group, uncovering the Final1stspy dropper that deploys the DOGCALL RAT in politically motivated attacks.
Unit 42 analyzed the NOKKI malware family used in politically themed attacks against Russian and Cambodian speakers since July 2018. The researchers linked NOKKI to the Reaper group, publicly attributed to North Korea, whose custom DOGCALL RAT uses third-party hosting services to upload data and receive commands. A previously unreported family, Final1stspy, was found deploying DOGCALL, sharing a unique base64-to-hex deobfuscation routine with NOKKI droppers. Attacks used malicious Microsoft Word macros that download and execute payloads while opening decoy documents.
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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
Ukraine's defense ministry opened millions of battlefield drone data points to over 100 companies, fueling a fast-growing AI training data marketplace.
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense announced in January it would make millions of data points from tens of thousands of drone flights available to military contractors and commercial companies, with more than 100 companies and the UK government gaining access. Enabled Intelligence says it has processed over 500,000 hours of Ukrainian drone footage for use in future AI training. The article argues this creates a commercial battlefield-data marketplace with risks including lost training-data provenance, an extractive economy benefiting wealthier countries, and a governance vacuum requiring international rules.
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Week in review: GitHub breached via poisoned VS Code extension, critical NGINX flaw exploited
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