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Hackers abuse ViPNet software to target Russian govt agencies
By
Bill Toulas
- July 19, 2026
- 10:23 AM
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An advanced threat actor is abusing the update mechanism for the ViPNet private networking product suite to target Russian organizations, including government agencies.
Dubbed HelloNet, the campaign has been active since at least May, deploying a malicious payload that acts as a proxy and loader for additional malware.
According to Kaspersky researchers, HelloNet has impacted organizations in the government, energy, transport, education, and logistics sectors.
Kaspersky has tentatively attributed the campaign to an unidentified Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) group.
However, the researchers stressed that the evidence is weak, relying primarily on an unused string referencing the Chinese website sina.com and a malware download mirror hosted by the University of Science and Technology of China.
As a result, they assign the attribution low confidence and do not rule out the possibility of a false flag operation.
The cybersecurity firm recommends thorough monitoring of systems running ViPNet software, particularly traffic passing through ports 5003, 5060 (HelloProxy), and 443 (HelloBackdoor).
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