Ukraine
Russia might take help of ransomware payments to fund Ukraine war costs
Russian war has entered its third week and the leader of the nation seems to be in no mood to give up. However, reports are in that Putin is finding it hard to break the resistance of Ukrainians and is falling short of finances, fuel, water and food supplies essential to keep his military units […]
Russia withdraws troops from Ukraine only to lodge cyber war
Russia announced on Tuesday that it is going to withdraw troops from the borders of Ukraine hinting that it is planning negotiations, as war can lead to economic and human loss on both sides. However, just within hours of its announcement, the Putin led nation seems to have launched a hybrid war in the form […]
Russian cyber attack on Ukraine downs government websites
A few hours ago, Ukraine government’s critical websites were hit by a cyber attack, blocking access to thousands of users from the past 6 hours. Reports are in that the most affected were the embassy websites belonging to UK, US and Swedish operating in Ukraine pointing the suspicion finger towards Russia. From the past 5-6 […]
Ukraine President enforces Information Security Strategy
Amid extreme concerns related to cyber warfare from Russia, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a new information security strategy policy was launched and came into effect early this week. Article 107 of the Constitution of Ukraine proposed a new security strategy for the country’s information systems on October 15,2021 and was waiting for the whole […]
Ukraine hackers spread ransomware to US Healthcare Company
Family Medical Center (FMC) of Michigan, a healthcare center supported by government funding, was targeted by a ransomware attack in July this year. Preliminary inquires revealed that the hackers could have accessed patient info and some medical research work along with the financial credit data. But a detailed investigation launched by the firm stated the […]
CLOP Ransomware gang arrested in Ukraine
After arresting members belonging to Avaddon, DarkSide, and DopplePaymer ransomware groups, the law enforcement of Ukraine in association with the US FBI has announced that it has arrested some key members related to CLOP Ransomware Group. In a statement issued yesterday, Ukrainian Police revealed that they have taken 6 members of notorious FIN11 aka […]
Russia Cozy Bear targets US Federal Agencies similar to Ukraine 2017 Cyber Attack
In June 2017, many of the banks, energy producers, local networks and state-owned media agencies in Ukraine were targeted by a malware oriented cyber attack from a hacking group named Cozy Bear aka APT29. A detailed probe launched later proved that the group was being backed by Foreign Intelligence Service belonging to Russia, and the […]
Ukraine arrests $42m ransomware gang with Bullet Proof Exchanger Project
The law enforcement department of Ukraine arrested a hackers gang maintaining 20 crypto currency exchanges meant to launder money worth $42 million in Bitcoins to cyber criminals across the world. The arrests were made in June 2020 as a part of ‘Bullet Proof Exchanger’ project put forward by Binance where the government has taken an […]
Ukraine busts hacker behind 773 million password breach of Americans and Europeans
Ukraine has released an official statement yesterday saying that the law enforcement authorities have taken a person named Sanix into custody in association with a password breach related to over 773 million European and American populace. Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says that the hacker was convicted about a hack involving 1 million unique […]
Russia using Ukraine as Cyberwarfare testing ground via Gamaredon
Russian funded Gamaredon hacking group has reportedly intensified its cyberattack campaigns against Ukraine; according to a recent report published in ‘SentinelOne’-endpoint protection providing software company. SentinelOne has highlighted in its report that Russia seems to have made the critical infrastructure of Ukraine as a testing ground to test its newly developed cyberwarfare tools which are mainly […]
