Posted on Mar 3, 2023
Russia bombards Ukraine with cyberattacks, but the impact appears limited
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On the afternoon of Feb. 23 last year, Robert Lipovsky and his team of cybersecurity researchers were glued to the television, watching as tensions were rising between Russia and Ukraine.
But the team, from the Slovakian cyber firm ESET, kept one eye on the telemetry streaming into their servers, automatically recording activity happening on customers' devices in Ukraine.
ESET is one of the cybersecurity firms with the most customers in Ukraine, whose researchers were one of the first to discover Russia's attacks that took down Ukraine's power grid years earlier. They were expecting Russia to attack.
That's when they saw something suspicious — what turned out to be a malicious bit of code designed to wipe away data on Ukrainian government and private sector devices.
"We were on top of it, we were analyzing it until late at night, knowing it was a big deal, but actually realizing the full significance only the next morning when we saw the news that the invasion had started," Lipovsky told NPR.
On the afternoon of Feb. 23 last year, Robert Lipovsky and his team of cybersecurity researchers were glued to the television, watching as tensions were rising between Russia and Ukraine.
But the team, from the Slovakian cyber firm ESET, kept one eye on the telemetry streaming into their servers, automatically recording activity happening on customers' devices in Ukraine.
ESET is one of the cybersecurity firms with the most customers in Ukraine, whose researchers were one of the first to discover Russia's attacks that took down Ukraine's power grid years earlier. They were expecting Russia to attack.
That's when they saw something suspicious — what turned out to be a malicious bit of code designed to wipe away data on Ukrainian government and private sector devices.
"We were on top of it, we were analyzing it until late at night, knowing it was a big deal, but actually realizing the full significance only the next morning when we saw the news that the invasion had started," Lipovsky told NPR.
Russia bombards Ukraine with cyberattacks, but the impact appears limited
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Continuation of a long war
For Ukrainians, including those working in cybersecurity, the war didn't start in February 2022. It began in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. Russia used cyberattacks to successfully take down Ukraine's power grid in 2015 and 2016, then launched a virus in 2017 that corrupted the networks of Ukrainian banks, newspapers and other companies. That virus, NotPetya, spiraled out of control and cost companies around the world billions of dollars.
Joe Slowik, who manages threat intelligence operations for the cyber firm Huntress, argues that Ukraine was never a "test lab" for Russian cyberattacks preparing for an eventual war. It's always been part of a "persistent, consistent campaign of disrupting Ukrainian critical infrastructure," he said."...
..."Continuation of a long war
For Ukrainians, including those working in cybersecurity, the war didn't start in February 2022. It began in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. Russia used cyberattacks to successfully take down Ukraine's power grid in 2015 and 2016, then launched a virus in 2017 that corrupted the networks of Ukrainian banks, newspapers and other companies. That virus, NotPetya, spiraled out of control and cost companies around the world billions of dollars.
Joe Slowik, who manages threat intelligence operations for the cyber firm Huntress, argues that Ukraine was never a "test lab" for Russian cyberattacks preparing for an eventual war. It's always been part of a "persistent, consistent campaign of disrupting Ukrainian critical infrastructure," he said."...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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