Anwesha Majumdar reports: As the ravaging Russia-Ukraine war has reached its 99th day, the chief of the United States’ Cyber Command, General Paul Nakasone, claimed that ‘offensive operation’ in support of war-torn Ukraine have been carried out by US military hackers. During an exclusive interview with Sky News, General Nakasone detailed how the separate “hunt forward” operations allowed…
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Cyberattacks quietly launched by Russia before its invasion of Ukraine may have been more damaging than intended
Stavros Atlamazoglou reports: … Russian hackers went after a variety of Ukrainian targets in the private and public sectors, but one cyber weapon aimed at a specific military target spilled over and affected tens of thousands of devices outside Ukraine. A few hours before the Russian invasion began on February 24, Russian hackers launched a…
Hacking Russia was off-limits. The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all.
Joseph Menn reports: ….. the third month of war finds Russia, not the United States, struggling under an unprecedented hacking wave that entwines government activity, political voluntarism and criminal action. Digital assailants have plundered the country’s personal financial data, defaced websites and handed decades of government emails to anti-secrecy activists abroad. One recent survey showed…
Microsoft discloses onslaught of Russian cyberattacks on Ukraine
Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing and James Pearson report: Russian government hackers carried out multiple cyber operations against Ukraine that appeared to support Moscow’s military attacks and online propaganda campaigns, Microsoft (MSFT.O) said in a report on Wednesday. The reported intrusions – some of which have not been previously disclosed – suggest that hacking has played a bigger…
Russian state hackers hit Ukraine with new malware variants
Bill Toulas reports: Threat analysts report that the Russian state-sponsored threat group known as Gamaredon (a.k.a. Armageddon/Shuckworm) is launching attacks against targets in Ukraine using new variants of the custom Pteredo backdoor. Gamaredon has been launching cyber-espionage campaigns targeting the Ukrainian government and other critical entities since at least 2014. Read more at BleepingComputer.
Microsoft on disrupting cyberattacks targeting Ukraine; Facebook on countering Ghostwriter’s attempts
Tom Burt , the Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust at Microsoft writes: Today, we’re sharing more about cyberattacks we’ve seen from a Russian nation-state actor targeting Ukraine and steps we’ve taken to disrupt it. We recently observed attacks targeting Ukrainian entities from Strontium, a Russian GRU-connected actor we have tracked for years. This…