Turla hackers use new Cereal malware to spy on govt Exchange servers
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Admiralty grading (A–F · 1–6)
Source reliability
- A Completely reliable
- B Usually reliable
- C Fairly reliable
- D Not usually reliable
- E Unreliable
- F Cannot be judged
Information credibility
- 1 Confirmed
- 2 Probably true
- 3 Possibly true
- 4 Doubtful
- 5 Improbable
- 6 Cannot be judged
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Key insight
The report shows that Russian APTs continue to develop new cyber-espionage tools targeting Exchange servers, underscoring the strategic threat level for Western organizations.
Description
Turla, an APT group believed to be backed by the Russian state, is using a new toolset called Cereal to intercept emails on Microsoft Exchange servers at government organizations. The malware enables long-term espionage by capturing email communications. Government agencies are affected; the campaign is active and associated with state-sponsored cyber-espionage. No CVE information is available because this is a tailored malware campaign.
Risk score
- strategic relevance
- 0.85
Path: strategic