The hacker targeted diplomats working in at least 22 of the roughly 80 foreign missions in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv
"In mid-April 2023, a diplomat within the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs emailed a legit flyer to various embassies advertising the sale of a used BMW 5-series sedan located in Kyiv".
The hackers intercepted and copied that flyer, and a gallery of photos of the car, and embedded it with malicious software, then sent it to dozens of other foreign diplomats working in Kyiv, listing the diplomat's BMW for a lower price - 7,500 euros - in their fake version of the advert, in an attempt to encourage more people to download the photo gallery malware, that would give the hackers remote access to the embassy devices.
The hackers intercepted and copied that flyer, and a gallery of photos of the car, and embedded it with malicious software, then sent it to dozens of other foreign diplomats working in Kyiv, listing the diplomat's BMW for a lower price - 7,500 euros - in their fake version of the advert, in an attempt to encourage more people to download the photo gallery malware, that would give the hackers remote access to the embassy devices.
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