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Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer "IT army" of security researchers and hackers to conduct cyberattacks on thirty-one Russian entities, including government agencies, critical infrastructure, and banks. A Telegram channel created to organize the IT Army's operations released a list of Russian targets.
Hacker crews are picking sides as the Russian invasion into Ukraine continues, issuing bans and threats for supporters of the opposite side. Earlier today, the Conti ransomware group stated their "Full support of Russian government" and threatened with cyberattacks against anyone launching attacks against Russia.
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the latter's government is reportedly seeking cybersecurity volunteers to help defend itself. The Russian National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents has issued an advisory warning of "The threat of an increase in the intensity of computer attacks on Russian information resources."
What sort of attacks should U.S. businesses expect? Kanry said we don't need to look back very far to see an example of the potential havoc state-sponsored cyberattacks can inflict: The Colonial Pipeline attack.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine warned today of a spearphishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The phishing emails are being sent from two domains, the former trying to impersonate the i.ua free Internet portal providing email services to Ukrainians since 2008.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine warned today of a spearphishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The phishing emails are being sent from two domains, the former trying to impersonate the i.ua free Internet portal providing email services to Ukrainians since 2008.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has cleared the way for a new battlefront with the West in cyberspace, with experts warning of an escalation in cyberwarfare. "We expect to see that probably beyond just Ukraine, disinformation to target Western audiences, cyberespionage against key NATO members, as Russia tries to understand the next moves when it comes to sanctions or other steps that Western governments will play," Luke McNamara, principal analyst at cybersecurity consulting firm Mandiant, told The Register.
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.
Cybersecurity firms ESET and Broadcom's Symantec said they discovered a new data wiper malware used in fresh attacks against hundreds of machines in Ukraine, as Russian forces formally launched a full-scale military operation against the country. The Slovak company dubbed the wiper "HermeticWiper", with one of the malware samples compiled on December 28, 2021, implying that preparations for the attacks may have been underway for nearly two months.
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.