Cyber war news

NetBlocks, which monitors internet service disruptions, reported a major disruption to communications at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Two in three businesses suspect they have been targeted by a nation-state cybercriminal organization since the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, according to a cybersecurity analyst.

A cybercriminal gang is using vulnerabilities in Microsoft products to go after US and NATO-affiliated organizations, according to threat intelligence analyst Mandiant.

As the war continues raging in Ukraine, Russia maintains pressure by launching a series of cyberattacks and hijacking legitimate penetration testing tools to destroy or gain control over targeted systems.

Even before its invasion of Ukraine, Russia had been attacking the West. How effective are its techniques?

A forum specializing in cyberattacks against Russia and Belarus has appeared on the scene – and while it charges for the service it also appears to be strongly partisan in nature, according to infosecurity firm Digital Shadows.

Pro-Russian hackers took down the website of Finland’s parliament, citing Helsinki’s NATO application as the reason behind the DDoS attack.

Russian special services partly used the bot farm to destabilize the social and political situation, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) claims.

Threat actors reportedly broadcasted a message suggesting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in critical condition.

The hackers aimed to carry out a supply chain attack on a large Ukrainian software development company servicing state organizations.

Threat actors linked to Russian ally Belarus took advantage of the attack on Ukraine to launch a barrage of their own, targeting the beleaguered country with phishing emails that played on citizens’ fear of bombardment.

Turla, a hacker group linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), used third-party messaging services to distribute the Android app.

Russian-backed threat group UAC has targeted Ukraine in another wave of attacks, phishing-style scams that play on citizens’ fears for their beleaguered country, according to research by Malwarebytes.

Several major Russian cinema chains were hit over the weekend, disrupting services and annoying moviegoers all over the country.

Kinetic attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure coincided with cyberattacks from pro-Russian hacktivists group, officials claim.

Cyber tit for tat resumes as Anonymous claims to penetrate the Russian Space Research Institute in response to pro-Kremlin hackers attacking NATO members.

For the first time ever, we are witnessing a real cyber war, Denys Tsvaig, the president of Ukraine’s national cybersecurity association, told Cybernews.

Malicious sites were designed to trick victims into believing they were applying for EU financial assistance.

Russia-affiliated hacker group Killnet took down several Lithuanian government websites in response to the Baltic country following EU sanctions.

The Kremlin's aggression in Ukraine put Russia on a ransomware map. Typically excluded from ransomware target lists, the country now finds itself in the eye of the storm, facing the highest proportion of ransomware detections (12%.)