Security News > 2022 > March > Russia Releases List of IPs, Domains Attacking Its Infrastructure with DDoS Attacks

As the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate, the Russian government on Thursday released a massive list containing 17,576 IP addresses and 166 domains that it said are behind a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks aimed at its domestic infrastructure.

As part of its recommendations to counter the DDoS attacks, the agency is urging organizations to ringfence network devices, enable logging, change passwords associated with key infrastructure elements, turn off automatic software updates, disable third-party plugins on websites, enforce data backups, and watch out phishing attacks.

"Use Russian DNS servers. Use the corporate DNS servers and/or the DNS servers of your telecom operator in order to prevent the organization's users from being redirected to malicious resources or other malicious activity," the NCCCI added.

The development comes as the ground war has been complemented by a barrage of cyber attacks in the digital domain, with hacktivist groups and other vigilante actors backing the two countries to strike websites of government and commercial entities and leak troves of personal data.

"Friends, you have already done the incredible! But now we need to mobilize and intensify our efforts as much as possible," a post on the IT army Telegram channel read. Meanwhile, the Conti ransomware group, which got a taste of its own medicine when its attack methods were publicly leaked last week after declaring allegiance to Russia, has since announced that "We are up and running, out infra is intact and we are going full throttle," according to a message titled "Not Yet Kameraden!" on its dark web portal.

"Lone-wolf and organized threats actors who possess the proper cyber skills may directly attack their nation's enemy or recruit others to join in a coordinated attack," Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers said.

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