GIFTEDCROOK’s Strategic Pivot: UAC-0226’s Espionage Surge Amid Ukraine’s Geopolitical Flashpoints

🔍 When your Excel macro is actually a Kremlin love letter.

UAC-0226 just leveled-up GIFTEDCROOK from petty browser pick-pocket to a full-blown spy suite—exactly as Kyiv rubber-stamps another round of martial law. They’re hoovering up .docx, .pdf, even .ovpn files and whisking them away through encrypted Telegram bots (bye-bye, “safe” chat traffic).

Scorching intel
• Arctic Wolf Labs spotted v1.3 sleeping past EDR and vacuuming whole drives.
• Reuters confirms martial law extended to August, gifting phishers a fear-driven theme park.

🤔 Question for the trenches: How are you tuning EDR rules when Telegram looks like just another chat?

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