Unknown hackers who on the night of January 14 attacked dozens of web resources Ukrainian government and Actions, intended to inflict maximum damage on them.. For this cybercriminals used – a wiper program for deleting information without the possibility of its further recovery.
This was reported by the State Service for Special Communications (State Special Communications) on your site and c Facebook. It should be noted that European and Western partners expressed their readiness to help Ukrainian specialists investigate the cyberattack, and many see in it precisely the Russian trace.
The State Special Communications Service notes that so far continue to analyze technical information from those affected authorities.
At the same time, it has already been established that during the attack on them, along with replacing the displayed information, hackers also used WhisperGate wiper software.
The company helped to find out Microsoft. It is noted that such a feature was recorded in several institutionswho were victims of the attack.
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“It is highly probable that interface (replacement of displayed information) sites of attacked government agencies and data destruction with a viper are components of one cyberattackaimed at causing as much damage as possible infrastructure of state electronic resources,” the State Special Communications Service expressed its conviction.
For today 95% cyber-attacked web resources have already resumed their work. Experts emphasized that this large-scale attack was much more difficult, some government sites hackers destroyed by hand.
As reported by OBOZREVATEL, national security adviser to the American leader Jake Sullivan warned about Russia’s response, if it is confirmed that she was involved in a hacker attack on Ukrainian government sites. The United States and its allies will also use them if cyber attacks on Ukraine continue.
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