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The attack on Kyivstar took out mobile and home internet service for as many as 24 million people in Ukraine.
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A group of hackers believed to be associated with Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), better known as APT28 or Fancy Bear, was responsible for last week’s international ransomware attack dubbed “BadRabbit,” according to Ukraine’s top law enforcement agency, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). In a letter sent to CyberScoop on Wednesday, SBU officials laid blame on APT28 for launching the massive, coordinated attack that disrupted business operations for hundreds of organizations based in Ukraine and Russia. Victims included multiple Russian news outlets, government organizations in both countries and Ukrainian transportation services. An official with Ukraine’s state cyber police announced Thursday, as part of an interview with Reuters, that the hackers behind BadRabbit intended for the ransomware to effectively act as a smokescreen while they simultaneously sent highly targeted phishing emails to several organizations. The phishing emails were designed to gain access to “financial and confidential information.” The state cyber police did not […]
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