Security News > 2022 > September > Ukraine Says Russia Planning Massive Cyberattacks on its Critical Infrastructures

The Ukrainian government on Monday warned of "Massive cyberattacks" by Russia targeting critical infrastructure facilities located in the country and that of its allies.

The attacks are said to be targeting the energy sector, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said.

GUR also cautioned of intensified distributed denial-of-service attacks aimed at the critical infrastructure of Ukraine's closest allies, chiefly Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

It's not immediately clear what prompted the intelligence agency to issue the notice, but Ukraine has been at the receiving end of disruptive and destructive cyberattacks since the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war earlier this February.

While the first attack involved the use of a revamped variant of a malware called BlackEnergy, the December 2016 intrusions notably made use of a custom malware known as Industroyer that's specifically designed to sabotage critical infra systems.

In the aftermath of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the Computer Emergency Response Team disclosed in April that it had fielded an attack targeting an unnamed energy provider that utilized an updated version of the Industroyer malware.

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