Security News > 2022 > February > Ukraine says it’s targeted by ‘massive wave of hybrid warfare’
The Security Service of Ukraine today said the country is the target of an ongoing "Wave of hybrid warfare," aiming to instill anxiety and undermine Ukrainian society's confidence in the state's ability to defend its citizens.
"Ukraine is facing attempts to systemically sow panic, spread fake information and distort the real state of affairs. All this combined is nothing more than another massive wave of hybrid warfare," the SSU said.
"The SSU is seeing such manifestations of hybrid warfare in social networks, some mass media, in the spread of narratives of the aggressor state by certain politicians, etc. The SSU is not just observing these, but also actively counteracting to them," the Ukrainian Security Service added.
Last week, the Ukrainian government security agency dismantled two bot farms linked to Russian special services and controlling 18,000 social network accounts.
On February 1st, the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team also warned of attacks against Ukrainian authorities, coordinated by the Gamaredon hacking group by the Ukrainian security and secret services).
Microsoft also said on February 4th that Gamaredon is the threat group behind a wave of spear-phishing emails targeting Ukrainian entities and organizations related to Ukrainian affairs since at least October 2021.