Elena Lacey | Getty Images reader comments 7 with 6 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, hackers defaced a Russian Space Research Institute website and leaked files that they allege are stolen from Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Their message? “Leave Ukraine alone else Anonymous will f*ck you up even more.” Meanwhile a DDoS… Read More »
reader comments 115 with 77 posters participating Share this story A Ukraine government official on Monday asked the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) to shut down DNS root servers in Russia and revoke Russian domains such as .ru, .рф, and .su. The letter to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names… Read More »
reader comments 12 with 8 posters participating Share this story Cyberspace is feeling the strain of Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine: multiple sites tied to the Kremlin and its allies in Belarus have been unavailable to all or at least major parts of the Internet in recent days. The outages began last week with the… Read More »
Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. reader comments 154 with 81 posters participating Share this story SpaceX is sending Starlink user terminals to Ukraine after a request from a government official. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation, used Twitter to make a direct plea to SpaceX CEO Elon… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 104 with 46 posters participating, including story author Share this story Ukraine’s defense ministry and two banks were knocked offline on Tuesday by a flood of malicious traffic designed to prevent people from visiting the sites, Ukraine’s information security center said. The distributed denial-of-service attacks targeted the websites for Ukraine’s defense… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 55 with 35 posters participating Share this story Over the past few months, geopolitical tensions have escalated as Russia amassed tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine’s border and made subtle but far-reaching threats if Ukraine and NATO don’t agree to Kremlin demands. Now, a similar dispute is playing out in… Read More »
Enlarge / A Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman watches through a spyglass in a trench on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near Avdiivka, southeastern Ukraine, on January 9, 2022. Anatolii Stepanov | Getty Images reader comments 189 with 66 posters participating Share this story Ukraine said it was the target of a “massive cyber attack” after… Read More »
Enlarge / A Colonial Pipeline facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Hackers last month disrupted the pipeline supplying petroleum to much of the East Coast. reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Ukrainian police have arrested members of a notorious ransomware gang that recently targeted American universities, as pressure mounts on global law… Read More »
reader comments 46 with 26 posters participating Share this story Ukraine has accused the Russian government of hacking into one of its government Web portals and planting malicious documents that would install malware on end users’ computers. “The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of information resources of public authorities, as this system… Read More »