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Telecommunications Outages in Ukraine
On March 11th, 2022, cyberattacks caused outages for Ukraine’s telecoms operator Ukrtelecom and ISP Triolan. Ukrtelecom experienced a 40-minute disruption, while Triolan faced over 12 hours of downtime, impacting key network nodes. Triolan’s partial service restoration covered major cities, following an initial attack on March 9th, 2022.
Anonymous Group Hacks Federal Russian Agency
Anonymous hackers have breached Roskomnadzor, the Russian media censoring agency, in support of Ukraine. The attack, revealing 820GB of data, highlights the agency's censorship role in the conflict.
Utilizing Cloud Technology in Russia and Ukraine
On March 16th, 2022, AquaSec's Team Nautilus analyzed cloud technology use in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, focusing on public repositories like DockerHub and GitHub. They found significant DoS activity and resources aiding digital conflict, with DockerHub containing the most related resources.
Protestware
In protest of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, node-ipc developer Brandon Nozaki Miller released compromised versions 10.1.1 and 10.1.2, targeting users in Russia and Belarus. These versions corrupt files on the victim host, tracked as CVE-2022-23812. The sabotaged versions have been removed, and version 10.1.3 is now available without the malicious code.
Ukraine Targeted with Fraudulent Translation Software
On March 16th, 2022, SentinelOne reported that SaintBear is distributing fraudulent translation software in Ukraine to infect users with GrimPlant and GraphSteel malware. This campaign, active since February 2022, involves downloading additional payloads, running reconnaissance commands, establishing persistence, and collecting credentials.
Threat Group Delivers Cobalt Strike Through AV Updates
Ukrainian CERT warns of a phishing campaign by UAC-0056/Lorec53, delivering Cobalt Strike through fake antivirus updates. The campaign prompts users to download "itdefenderWindowsUpdatePackage.exe" which downloads a Cobalt Strike beacon from Discord. The attack establishes persistence, conducts reconnaissance, and executes commands on the victim host.
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