UK foreign secretary says the proposal includes 40-day pause in fighting and release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages
The researchers found a GitHub repository used by the group to store their scripts, as well as several post-compromise tools the group uses to exploit victims once they have established a foothold in their network.
"In September 2018, we found evidence of Seedworm and the espionage group APT28 (aka Swallowtail, Fancy Bear), on a computer within the Brazil-based embassy of an oil-producing nation," said the Symantec researchers.
Access to the victim's email, social media, and chat accounts is one of the group's likely goals, according to the researchers.
"Since its existence first came to light, we've seen Seedworm modify the way it operates. Since early 2017, they have continually updated their Powermud backdoor and other tools to avoid detection and to thwart security researchers analysing the tools," the blog post said.
"They've also used GitHub to store malware and a handful of publicly available tools, which they then customise to carry out their work," it added.
The researchers analysed data on 131 victims that were compromised by Seedworm's Powermud backdoor from late September to mid-November 2018.
The telecommunications and IT services sectors were their main targets, the next most common group of victims was in the oil and gas sector, followed by universities and embassies, the findings showed.
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