TinyTurla is a backdoor from the Turla APT group that has been used since at least 2020, Cisco Talos researchers say. The Russian state-sponsored hackers have been using the new malware as a secondary persistence method on compromised systems in the U.S., Germany, and Afghanistan. The group may go as far back as 1996, though, a massive cyberespionage operation on classified systems from NASA, the Pentagon, military contractors, and multiple government agencies in the United States.”]