Security News > 2022 > February > Meta: Ukrainian officials, military targeted by Ghostwriter hackers
Facebook says it took down accounts used by a Belarusian-linked hacking group to target Ukrainian officials and military personnel on its platform.
"We detected attempts to target people on Facebook to post YouTube videos portraying Ukrainian troops as weak and surrendering to Russia, including one video claiming to show Ukrainian soldiers coming out of a forest while flying a white flag of surrender," Meta's Head of Security Policy Nathaniel Gleicher and Threat Disruption Director David Agranovich said.
Meta's report confirms a warning issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine on Friday regarding spearphishing attacks targeting the private email accounts of the Ukrainian military.
The Ukrainian State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection also warned of a separate and ongoing series of phishing attacks targeting Ukrainians with malicious documents.
These attacks follow data-wiping attacks against Ukrainian networks with HermeticWiper malware and ransomware decoys aiming to destroy data and render devices unbootable.
The Ukrainian Security Service said the country is being targeted by a "Massive wave of hybrid warfare."