It’s not clear the threatening SMS messages troops are receiving now, the hacking, and the fresh website downs are related.īut they appear to be a page out of Russia’s operations playbook, Steve Hall, the former CIA chief of Russia operations, told The Daily Beast. The hackers behind the destructive malware found Wednesday in Ukraine created it two months ago, ESET's Head of Threat Research told The Daily Beast, and only deployed it in Ukraine, suggesting a highly targeted attack.Īlready, though, the attack seems to be spreading to other countries: Entities in Latvia and Lithuania, including at a government contractor, are affected by the wiper malware, Vikram Thakur, a Symantec technical director, told The Daily Beast. Hackers suspected to have ties to Russia last month also deployed wiper malware in Ukraine. We've seen more DDoS activity this week than last week, but less than a month ago,” a spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “We’ve seen sporadic DDoS activity in Ukraine. Ukraine’s cybersecurity agency, the State Service for Special Communication and Information Protection confirmed to The Daily Beast Wednesday that DDoS attacks had pummeled government websites and banks.Ĭloudflare, a cybersecurity firm, told The Daily Beast that DDoS attacks have been on the uptick in Ukraine lately. The messages were fake, according to Ukraine’s police force.įedorov said the attacks on the websites in this case are DDoS operations as well, which is a cyber-operation when attackers overwhelm a site to the point it malfunctions and shuts down. The attack appeared to have multiple prongs, including psychological effects: Ukrainians also received SMS messages alerting them that ATMs weren’t working in an apparent attempt to create panic in the country. intelligence communities’ assessments, Russia's GRU, its main intelligence directorate, was responsible for a similar cyber-operation known as a DDoS that knocked Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Services websites offline and hit Ukrainian banks just last week, Anne Neuberger, Biden's Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology, said in recent days.
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