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The secret US mission to bolster Ukraine’s cyber defenses ahead of Russia’s invasion

gwengoat | Getty Images reader comments 109 with 42 posters participating Share this story Months before the Russian invasion, a team of Americans fanned out across Ukraine looking for a very specific kind of threat. Some team members were soldiers with the US Army’s Cyber Command. Others were civilian contractors and some employees of American… Read More: The secret US mission to bolster Ukraine’s cyber defenses ahead… »

Hackers stoke pandemonium amid Russia’s war in Ukraine

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: Hackers stoke pandemonium amid Russia’s war in Ukraine »

Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers

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: Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down… »

After Ukraine recruits an “IT Army,” dozens of Russian sites go dark

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: After Ukraine recruits an “IT Army,” dozens of Russian sites… »

Ukraine asks Musk for Starlink terminals as Russian invasion disrupts broadband

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: Ukraine asks Musk for Starlink terminals as Russian invasion disrupts… »

Flood of malicious junk traffic makes Ukrainian websites unreachable

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: Flood of malicious junk traffic makes Ukrainian websites unreachable »

Microsoft warns of destructive disk wiper targeting Ukraine

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: Microsoft warns of destructive disk wiper targeting Ukraine »

Ukraine says government websites hit by “massive cyber attack”

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: Ukraine says government websites hit by “massive cyber attack” »

Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown

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: Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown »

Ukraine says Russia hacked its document portal and planted malicious files

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: Ukraine says Russia hacked its document portal and planted malicious… »