Contents tagged with hacker attack
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Media: Russian hackers stole Ukraine and Brexit related documents from German government
According to Spiegel, hackers who attacked the servers of the German Government managed to steal the documents about of the British withdrawal from the European Union (Berxit).
Also, they stole documents on EU negotiations with Ukraine and Belarus. According to Spiegel, six documents were stolen in total.
Last week, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on a hacker attack on the German government's network. According to the media, the hackers intended to get access to the documents of the …
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Germany’s counterespionage says there is a threat of Russian interference in elections
Russian intelligence services are actively working in Germany and may try to intervene in the upcoming elections, said Hans-Georg Maassen, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Germany.
As Maassen noted in an interview with Die Welt, the German State Police fear that Russia will launch a campaign of misinformation in connection with the Bundestag elections. According to Maassen, Moscow can use cyber attacks to accomplish this. He noted that it is legally …
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National Bank of Ukraine warns of possible cyber-attack on Ukrainian Independence Day
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) warned Ukrainian banks that on Independence Day, which is celebrated in Ukraine on August 24, a hacker attack on the country’s banking system was possible, RBC-Ukraine news agency reported citing the press service of the bank.
"The NBU promptly informed the banks about the appearance of a new malicious code, its features, signatures of the attacks and the need to introduce preventive measures to prevent the attack," the report said.
The description of virus, …
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Head of the Ukrainian cyber police anticipates new hacker attack on Independence Day
The next hacker attack in Ukraine is expected to be on Independence Day, says Sergey Demedyuk, head of the National Council Department on Cyber Policy.
"We warn that it will be on August 24, on Independence Day. We see that such attacks occur on the eve or day of some large holidays for Ukraine," he said in an interview with Glavkom.
He noted that there are many elements in M.E.Doc malicious software that are not yet activated.
"We do not yet know the full extent of the properties of the …
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Security Service of Ukraine accuses Russia of launching the Petya ransomware attack on Ukraine
The Security Service of Ukraine has accused Russian Special Services of launching the computer ransomware Petya.A.
In the opinion of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), this virus was disguised as ransomware, but in fact its goal was a purposeful destabilization of the socio-political situation in Ukraine.
"The virus is a cover for a large-scale attack aimed at Ukraine, as evidenced by the absence of a real mechanism for seizing money, whose primitiveness only confirms the view that …
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SBU: Cyber attack on Ukraine was planned in advance
On June 27, several Ukrainian banks, as well as some private and public sectors companies were subjected to an external hacker attack which used a then-unknown virus. However, the press center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) now says it was a previously known but modified ransom ware, which is currently being studied.
"At present, SBU specialists, together with the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine, the department of Cyber Police, representatives of anti-virus companies, …