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Microsoft has disrupted suspected Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat group SEABORGIUM, which has been launching cyberespionage attacks against government officials, military officials, journalists, and think tanks across Europe and South Caucasus during the past five years, SecurityWeek reports.

Ukraine has been facing escalating cyberattacks from Russian state-sponsored hacking group Gamaredon, also known as Shuckworm or Armageddon, since Russia's invasion began six months ago, with the latest wave of attacks reported from July 15 to Aug. 8, according to BleepingComputer.

Callback phishing attacks, or hybridized voice phishing that also includes pre-call emails, have increased by 625% between the first quarter of 2021 and second quarter of 2022 even though overall phishing volumes only rose by 6% during the same period, indicating hackers' evolving techniques in phishing, reports BleepingComputer.

Twilio, a major provider of cloud communications services, uncovered a security breach last week that affected 125 of its customers, whose data was briefly accessed by malicious actors, BleepingComputer reported.

Developers of the SOVA Android banking trojan have been continuously updating the malware to expand its capabilities, most recently implementing a ransomware module on the 5.0 version, according to BleepingComputer.

Cybersecurity groups SEKOIA and Trend Micro have released reports detailing the activities of China-based advanced persistent threat actor Lucky Mouse and its use of a trojanized version of the MiMi chat application to attack systems, according to The Hacker News.