By Kathy Gibson – The very visible war between Russia and Ukraine is taking place on the ground, but a fierce battle is also taking place in the cyber environment, and may spill over to organisations in other countries ~
By Kathy Gibson – The very visible war between Russia and Ukraine is taking place on the ground, but a fierce battle is also taking place in the cyber environment.
Ukraine was first heavily targeted in 2014 with the BlackEnergy APT router hack around elections, and the CyberBerkut leaks and DDoS attacks targeting the Ukraine Central Election Commission. “At the same time, the most intense activity is probably still to come and we are on the lookout for more sophisticated cyberattacks.”
On the APT front, there has been a significant uptick in Gamaredon activity in Ukraine during the last three or four weeks. The MicroBackdoor tool, created by same person responsible for the BlackEnergy malware, has been used with some success in Ukraine as well. While most of the affected terminals were in Ukraine, it also interrupted services in other parts of Europe – including dropped communication with close to 6 000 turbines in Germany.
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