Security News > 2023 > February > The impact of Russia’s Ukraine invasion on digital threats

Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to have a major impact on energy prices, inflation, and cyberthreats, with the ransomware scene experiencing some of the biggest shifts, according to ESET. "The ongoing war in Ukraine has created a divide among ransomware operators, with some supporting and others opposing the aggression. Attackers have also been using increasingly destructive tactics, such as deploying wipers that mimic ransomware and encrypt the victim's data with no intention of providing a decryption key," explains Roman Kováč, Chief Research Officer at ESET. The digital threats trends.

The war also affected brute-force attacks against exposed RDP services, but despite the decline of these attacks in 2022, password guessing remains the most favored network attack vector.

ESET products blocked an increase of 62% in cryptocurrency-themed phishing websites in T3, and the FBI recently issued a warning about a surge in new crypto-investment schemes.

"The Android platform also saw an increase in spyware throughout the year, due to easy-to-access spyware kits available on various online forums and used by amateur attackers," added Kováč.

The ESET report also reviews the most important findings and achievements by ESET researchers.

As for supply-chain attacks, ESET experts found a new wiper and its execution tool, which they have both attributed to the Agrius APT group, aiming at users of an Israeli software suite used in the diamond industry.

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