Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant, by Dustin Volz.

The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against the artillery in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine …

The implant leveraged a legitimate Android application developed by a Ukrainian artillery officer to process targeting data more quickly …

Its deployment “extends Russian cyber capabilities to the front lines of the battlefield”, the report said, and “could have facilitated anticipatory awareness of Ukrainian artillery force troop movement, thus providing Russian forces with useful strategic planning information”.