Security News > 2022 > February > Ukraine hit by DDoS attacks, Russia deploys malware

IBM's infosec division says the UK was one of the most targeted countries in Europe for cyberattacks last year.

The 12-strong Lithuanian-led team - including members from Estonia, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Croatia, Romania and Poland - is visiting the Ukraine to help it defend against Russian cyberattacks both remotely and on-site in the country, an EU spokesman told the BBC. Separately, this afternoon another series of outages appeared to hit various Ukrainian government websites.

The Register verified that Cloudflare DDoS mitigation on the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence websites appeared to be working as advertised but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian parliament's website were both inaccessible.

Last week some Ukrainian government websites as well as banks' public-facing websites were downed in a DDoS attack.

"Cyclops Blink appears to be a replacement framework for the VPNFilter malware exposed in 2018, which exploited network devices, primarily small office/home office routers, and network attached storage devices," warned NCSC. VPNfilter was being actively used up to 2018, as we reported.

Its targets included Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, TP-Link, and QNAP. Separately, IBM's X-Force infosec arm warned today that Britain is one of the top three cyberattack targets in Europe, alongside Germany and Italy.

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