In the past 2 years, we have observed a significant surge in hacktivism activity due to ongoing wars and geopolitical conflicts in various regions. Since the war against Ukraine began, we have witnessed a notable mobilization of non-state and state-backed actors alike, forming new groups or joining existing hacker collectives.
We understand hacktivism as a form of computer hacking that is
The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022.
The findings come from Google's Mandiant, which described the hack as a "multi-event cyber attack" leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS).
"The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land (LotL) techniques to
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has revealed that threat actors "interfered" with at least 11 telecommunication service providers in the country between May and September 2023.
The agency is tracking the activity under the name UAC-0165, stating the intrusions led to service interruptions for customers.
The starting point of the attacks is a reconnaissance phase in
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday said it thwarted a cyber attack against an unnamed critical energy infrastructure facility in the country.
The intrusion, per the agency, started with a phishing email containing a link to a malicious ZIP archive that activates the infection chain.
“Visiting the link will download a ZIP archive containing three JPG images (
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