{"id":1144,"date":"2026-08-11T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:55:17","slug":"sandworm-hackers-target-it-pros-with-trojanized-wireguard-vpn-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/sandworm-hackers-target-it-pros-with-trojanized-wireguard-vpn-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandworm hackers target IT pros with trojanized WireGuard VPN client"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hackers associated with the Russian threat group Sandworm have been targeting system administrators and IT professionals through fake job offers since at least May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A report from the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) details a social engineering campaign attributed to UAC-0145, which is believed to be a sub-cluster of Sandworm (APT44). In the campaign, the threat actor targets victims while posing as IT companies and recruiters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency says that the attacker studies the targets&#8217;&nbsp;resumes uploaded on job sites and then initiates direct contact.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/sandworm-hackers-target-it-pros-with-trojanized-wireguard-vpn-client\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/sandworm-hackers-target-it-pros-with-trojanized-wireguard-vpn-client\/\">Sandworm hackers target IT pros with trojanized WireGuard VPN client<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Sandworm hackers target IT pros with trojanized WireGuard VPN client<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers associated with the Russian threat group Sandworm have been targeting system administrators and IT professionals through fake job offers since at least May. A report from the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) details a social engineering campaign attributed to UAC-0145, which is believed to be a sub-cluster of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,9],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malware","tag-72","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}