Cybersecurity

Ukrainian startup secures $1 million to counter online disinformation

Ukrainian VC firm SMRK has injected $1 million in Osavul, a company launched last year “to protect society from disinformation and manipulations from malicious actors.” “The world has faced a powerful wave of propaganda and narratives discrediting Ukrainians and its struggle. New technologies — such as large language models like ChatGPT — make it easier …

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Australian firm opens office in Kyiv to train cyber warriors

Internet 2.0, an internationally-renowned Australian cybersecurity company, will train Ukrainian war veterans to ward off hackers as part of the nation’s defense efforts. Visiting Ukraine in December 2022, the company’s CEO Robert Potter signed an MoU with the ministry of digital transformation, according to media reports. He announced the opening of an office in Kyiv, aiming to support …

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Preparing for a Russian cyber offensive against Ukraine this winter

In the wake of Russian battlefield losses to Ukraine this fall, Moscow has intensified its multi-pronged hybrid technology approach to pressure the sources of Kyiv’s military and political support, domestic and foreign. This approach has included destructive missile and cyber strikes on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, cyberattacks on Ukrainian and now foreign-based supply chains, and …

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Valentine Hrytsenko, Ajax Systems CMO: “Our new Ukrainian plant employs 1,200 people and produces 550,000 devices monthly”

Founded in 2011 in Kyiv by Aleksandr Konotopskyi, today Ajax Systems a major manufacturer of security systems in Europe. Last year, the Ajax Systems team grew to 1,700 people, entered 10 new markets, and surpassed the mark of 1 million users. Despite the war, all global challenges, and after the first quarter of the year, …

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Microsoft draws “early lessons from the cyberwar” between Russia and Ukraine

Today Microsoft published a new intelligence report, Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War. This report represents research conducted by Microsoft’s threat intelligence and data science teams with the goal of sharpening our understanding of the threat landscape in the ongoing war in Ukraine. The report also offers a series of lessons and conclusions resulting from the …

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Ukraine disrupts attempt by Russian hackers to take down energy provider

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disrupted an attempt by Sandworm, a hacking group known to work for Russia’s military intelligence, to take down a Ukrainian energy provider.  The Russia-backed hacking group attempted to disconnect the unnamed provider’s electrical substations using a new version of the infamous Industroyer malware, CERT-UA said in a security …

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Russia is using an onslaught of cyber attacks to undermine Ukraine’s defense capabilities

As Ukrainian cities come under air attack from Russian forces, the country has also suffered the latest blows in an ongoing campaign of cyber attacks. Several of Ukraine’s bank and government department websites crashed on Wednesday, the BBC reports.  The incident follows a similar attack just over a week ago, in which some 70 Ukrainian government websites crashed. Ukraine and …

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After cyberattack on Ukraine, western allies point at Russia but have no detailed response plan

“The largest DDoS attack in Ukraine’s history,” according to the digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fyodorov, took place this past Tuesday, Feb. 15 — just one month after a previous attack.  The attack targeted the websites of the defense ministry and armed forces as well as two of Ukraine’s two largest banks – PrivatBank and Oschadbank. Starting at 3pm that day, …

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Meet UNC1151, the group behind the latest attack against Ukrainian websites

January 13-14, Ukrainian government sites were hit by a massive cyber-attack. The attack immediately prompted harsh warnings from the international community and the general assumption that Russian hackers were behind the attack. However, on further investigation it appears the attack originated in Belarus and the hackers had access to the administration codes from a private company that …

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“Massive” cyberattack hits Ukraine government websites

A sweeping cyberattack briefly knocked out key government websites in Ukraine Friday amid high-voltage tensions between Russia and the West over Ukrainian security. Kyiv said the damage was limited and held back on apportioning blame but the ex-Soviet country has accused Russians with links to Moscow for previous hits on websites and key infrastructure. “As …

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Ukrainian-founded threat detection marketplace raises $11 million in the US

Last week SOC Prime, a Ukrainian-founded cybersecurity firm based in Boston, announced the completion of a $11 million Series A round. The deal involved three US-based funds:  DNX Ventures — which led the round, — Streamlined Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners. SOC Prime touts itself as “the only threat detection marketplace where researchers monetize their content to help security …

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