Sandworm hackers have a CAPTCHA trick for Ukrainians
2026-07-16T14:51:52Z•2d645965250e1331c949515001efbd885f4e1e053f659537d51243eb68e14767
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and policy moves: Sandworm is using a malicious CAPTCHA ruse to trick Ukrainian users into pasting and running PowerShell commands, enabling remote code execution via social-engineering. Two Scattered Spider leaders were sentenced for the 2024 Transport for London hack, underscoring ongoing criminal prosecutions. A cyberattack on Japan’s Nichirei Logistics (cold‑chain) disrupted KFC and supermarket supplies, showing real-world supply‑chain impacts. The U.S. announced Gold Eagle, an AI-supported vulnerability clearinghouse to speed detection, prioritization,
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