Security News > 2022 > September > Ukraine warns allies of Russian plans to escalate cyberattacks

The Ukrainian military intelligence service warned today that Russia is planning to escalate cyber-attacks targeting the critical infrastructure of Ukraine and its allies.

"The Kremlin plans to carry out massive cyber attacks on critical infrastructure of Ukrainian enterprises and institutions of critical infrastructure of Ukraine's allies," the intelligence service warned.

"First of all, the blow will be directed at the energy industry. The operations will use the experience of cyber attacks on the energy systems of Ukraine in 2015 and 2016.".

In February, CISA and the FBI also said in a joint advisory that wiper malware attacks targeting Ukraine could easily spill over to targets from other countries.

Google's Threat Analysis Group added in late March that phishing attacks against NATO and European military entities were orchestrated by the Russian COLDRIVER hacking group.

Two months later, the U.S., U.K., and EU jointly accused Russia of coordinating a massive cyberattack that hit the KA-SAT consumer-oriented satellite broadband service in Ukraine on February 24, one hour before Russia invaded Ukraine, with AcidRain data destroying malware.

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