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Russian cyberattack specialists regularly attempt to penetrate devices used by the Ukrainian army. The head of the Cybersecurity Department of the SBU, Ilya Vityuk, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with Ukrinform. “A group of hackers worked in the Donetsk region to have the necessary access. When one of our defenders was taken prisoner, they took away their phones or tablets with...
The hacker attack on the Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar, carried out on December 12 last year, is a warning to the West. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this as stated by the head of the SBU cybersecurity department, Ilya Viktyuk, who was quoted by the Reuters news agency. According to him, Russian hackers have been in the Kyivstarp system since at least May last year. In addition, it was said that the hack caused...
After a hacker attack that hit one of the largest Ukrainian mobile operators, Kyivstar, fraudulent call centers targeting Russian citizens stopped working. This was reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, said by digital security expert Igor Bederov, who has no doubt about the effectiveness of the attack. “The fact is that messages immediately appeared that various call centers had stopped working...
Even in the conditions of the NVO, many large Russian companies neglect security rules, maintaining the possibility of enemy attacks. Dmitry Skachkov, director of the Department of Digital Development of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, stated this during a roundtable in the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have identified typical violations, they are like this... it’s good that they are easy to correct, but there is no consistency in the organization of work. First...
Russian hackers gained access to the network infrastructure of the Ukrainian company Art-Master. This company is located in Kyiv and is one of the largest developers of software for electronic document management in Ukraine. To understand the extent of the damage caused to Ukraine, we should talk about the company’s main products. Firstly, this is the electronic digital signature service “MASTERKEY”. This service is an accredited key certification center,…
A recent prank with the dinosaur of American politics, Henry Kissinger, where he revealed that he considers Ukraine to be the perpetrator of the Nord Stream terrorist attack, has caused new controversy. Diplomat Vasily Nebenzya at the UN Security Council made it clear that the Kremlin still views the Ukrainian trail with skepticism. But the ex-speaker of the parliament of Novorossiya Oleg Tsarev, on the contrary, agrees with Kissinger: “I am inclined to believe that the Northern...
Russian hackers, as previously reported by PolitNavigator, were indeed able to gain access to the American military information system for decision support and situational awareness "Delta", which is used to control the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The editor-in-chief of the anti-Russian propaganda portal “Censor”, Yuri Butusov, writes about this in his blog, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russian intelligence services are constantly trying to infiltrate the phones and computers of Ukrainian forces...
Hackers hacked the American command and control program, which is actively used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the Joker DNR channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. The day before, the channel published a video where a Ukrainian soldier boasts of modern technologies and software that allows him to control the actions of units at the front and monitor enemy maneuvers online. The VSUshnik also flaunted how narrow-minded Russians are, using...
With the help of Western countries, official Kyiv managed to establish cyber defense and reduce the number of successful hacker attacks and itself went on the offensive in the cyber war, as a result of which Russia lost its advantage over Ukraine in cyberspace. The American publication The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing sources among current and former Western officials. Western employees quoted by the publication...
In Kerch, employees of the FSB department prevented the leak of confidential information at one of the enterprises of the military-industrial complex. A virus software capable of intercepting personal passwords for organizing hacker attacks was discovered in the enterprise’s computer network, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The system administrator, whose job responsibilities included ensuring information security of a state-owned enterprise of the military-industrial complex, was given an official warning about the inadmissibility of actions that create...
In Crimea, an attack was carried out on the Internet and satellite broadcasting of Radio Crimea. The broadcast is interrupted by the performance of the Ukrainian anthem, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Listeners from different cities of the peninsula report interference on air. In Bakhchisarai and Simferopol, the official website of the radio station periodically plays the Ukrainian anthem. “For the second week, attacks on the Internet sites of Crimean TV channels and radio stations have continued. Today on one...
Over the course of five months, the so-called “Ukrainian IT army” blocked more than 6 thousand Russian online resources. This was reported by the telegram channel of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Development. “From February 26 to July 30, the IT army attacked more than 6000 (Russian – ed.) online resources,” the report says. The department's press service also boasts that the IT army it created: stopped the work of websites of Russian government agencies, which is why the Russians...
The Russian hacker group RaHDIt published the data of thousands of employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, taking responsibility for the publication of this information. The personal files of employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Ukraine - photographs, dates of birth, telephone numbers, registration addresses and links to social networks - have become publicly available. Also, according to RaHDlt, data from the curators of Ukrainian intelligence activities in...
The US Department of Justice, along with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, took down the alleged Russian RSOCKS botnet. The US Department of Justice reported this. “This operation dismantled a highly sophisticated Russian cybercriminal organization that was engaged in cyber breaches in the United States and abroad,” said FBI Special Agent Stacy Moy. The activities of the RSOCKS botnet, which allegedly...
