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The Russian government on Thursday warned of cyber attacks aimed at domestic critical infrastructure operators, as the country's full-blown invasion of Ukraine enters the second day. The agency didn't share more specifics on the nature of the attacks or their provenance.
The new data wiper malware deployed on Ukrainian networks in destructive attacks on Wednesday right before Russia invaded Ukraine earlier today was, in some cases, accompanied by a GoLang-based ransomware decoy. "In several attacks Symantec has investigated to date, ransomware was also deployed against affected organizations at the same time as the wiper. As with the wiper, scheduled tasks were used to deploy the ransomware," Symantec revealed today.
Renewed DDoS attacks have been launched against websites Ukrainian government agencies and banks. New data wiper malware has been discovered on Ukrainian computers, as well as machines in Latvia and Lithuania.
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Cybersecurity firms have found a new data wiper used in destructive attacks today against Ukrainian networks just as Russia moves troops into regions of Ukraine. A data wiper is malware that intentionally destroys data on a device to make the data unrecoverable and for the operating system to no longer work correctly.
IBM's infosec division says the UK was one of the most targeted countries in Europe for cyberattacks last year. The 12-strong Lithuanian-led team - including members from Estonia, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Croatia, Romania and Poland - is visiting the Ukraine to help it defend against Russian cyberattacks both remotely and on-site in the country, an EU spokesman told the BBC. Separately, this afternoon another series of outages appeared to hit various Ukrainian government websites.
The sites of several Ukrainian government agencies, and of the two largest state-owned banks are again targeted by Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks. Internet watchdog NetBlocks also confirmed that the websites Privatbank and Oschadbank were being hammered in the attacks and knocked down together with Ukrainian government sites.
2021 mobile malware evolution: Fewer attacks, escalating dangers. To get a picture of its status, Kaspersky just released a new report about the mobile malware threat evolution.
Neustar Security Services has released a report which details the ongoing rise in cyberattacks in 2021, with an unprecedented number of carpet bombing distributed denial of service attacks. Carpet bombing, in which a DDoS attack targets multiple IP addresses of an organization within a very short time, accounted for 44% of total attacks last year, but the disparity between the first and second half of 2021 was stark.
Over the weekend, hackers stole millions of dollars worth of non-fungible tokens belonging to 17 members of the OpenSea NFT marketplace. On Saturday, a small number of OpenSea users noticed their NFTs were missing.