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#4 The Hacker News general November 10, 2026 at 10:07 UTC

Russian Turla Hackers Use New Cereal Malware to Steal Emails From Government Exchange Servers

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Russia-linked Turla (aka Snake) has deployed a previously undocumented toolset called 'Cereal' to compromise Microsoft Exchange servers at government organizations in Kazakhstan and Romania, silently exfiltrating emails. Per a new ESET report, Cereal features a novel Exchange email collection module, a unique C2 mechanism, and sophisticated .NET execution tricks with minimal indicators of compromise. The targeting of NATO and EU correspondence via government email infrastructure represents a significant ongoing espionage operation.

Relevance score: 88.0/100

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