New Delhi/Kiev: Facing massive cyber-attacks from Russia-sponsored threat actors, Ukraine has now assembled an ‘IT army’ tasked with specific cyber challenges, which reached nearly 2 lakh users on Telegram on Monday.
Called “Ukraine Ti Army”, also uses the Telegram account to succeed in the technology leaders to the country to combat Russian cyber attacks and close Russian sites and its agents.
“A call out on the channel to shut down the API for Sberbank, one of Russia’s major banks, appears to have come into play, with the site currently offline,” reports TechCrunch.
Ukrainian government officials also approve of “the PC army,” tweeting the telegram link.
“We created an army of PCs. We want virtual talent. There will be responsibilities for everyone. We continue to fight on the cyber front. The first task is in the chain of cyber specialists,” tweeted Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation.
Cybernetic war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified, with destructive Russia new malware to permanently destroy knowledge about the systems that belong to Ukrainian organizations.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to hacking groups increasing their activities globally. While Russia-backed hackers have already hit several Ukrainian government websites and banks, a leading hacking group, Anonymous, has declared itself aligned with “Western allies”, targeting operations in Russia.
“The unnamed collective is officially in cyber warfare, the Russian government,” the group tweeted.
According to the IBM Security X-Force team, they received a new “Hermeticwper” malware pattern and were eliminated in Ukrainian systems.
Belarusian state-sponsored hackers are also targeting the private email addresses of Ukrainian military personnel amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) said in a Facebook post that a massive phishing crusade targeted personal accounts belonging to Ukrainian army personnel.