Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on June 7 signed a decree on creating a national cybersecurity center. The decree takes effect from June 8, the date of its official publication. According to the decree, the center is to coordinate its activities with the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine to implement the Ukrainian Cybersecurity Strategy that the NSDC …
Earlier this month the Ukrainian activist website Mirotvorets (“Peacemaker”) published a spreadsheet listing what appear to be the names and details of thousands of journalists who have received accreditation to report in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR). The database was published with little publicity, until a Facebook post on May 10 by Anton Gerashchenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker and an advisor to …
Ukrainian activists leak personal information of 7901 war reporters in Donbas Read More
In June of 2015, a small software and security programming outfit called eQualit.ie received $473,738 in funding from the Canadian government “to deliver digital security training and software to human rights defenders and activists in Ukraine.” In February, the fruits of its labor — a program called Deflect DDoS mitigation — was put to the …
The activists on the forefront of Ukraine’s cyberwar Read More
While the internet has revolutioned economies and changed lives around the world, cyberattacks threaten to undo its magic, as Ukraine knows very well. In Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on Dec. 23, the country may well have suffered the world’s first power outage caused by a cyberattack, informational technology experts say. About 230,000 Ukrainians were plunged into darkness for …
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Pawn Storm, a cyber-espionage group believed to have ties with the Russian government, targeted the international investigation team of the MH17 plane crash, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro asserts in a report released yesterday. “We believe that a coordinated attack from several sides was launched to get unauthorized access to sensitive material of the investigation conducted by Dutch, Malaysian, Australian, Belgian, …
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Last week, the Interior ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft regarding cooperation in the areas of data protection, as well as information and cyber security. Rather than providing software, the company will offer information support and consultation to the specialists at MIA with regards to Microsoft products and services. Microsoft will also aid law …
Ukrainian government partners with Microsoft on cyber security Read More
Ukraine is known as the producer of useful software for businesses and individuals. But it also has something worthy to offer in cyber security. ALLIT Service company released its antivirus software Zillya! in 2009, becoming the first antivirus software producer in Ukraine. Six years later, while successfully selling its product outside Ukraine, it is finding less success …
Ukrainian antivirus software gets popular abroad, but not at home Read More
Media attention to the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict has focused on a significant number of hacking and malware attacks by private actors. As an example, the pro-Russian hacker group CyberBerkut has assumed responsibility for cyber operations against NATO, the vote counting system for Ukrainian elections, and a mobile device within the U.S. vice-president’s delegation during a …
German government websites were brought down Wednesday by a deliberate attack claimed by a pro-Russian hacking group connected to the separatist movement in eastern Ukraine. The hack came a day before German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk in Berlin to discuss economic cooperation. A group calling itself …
Pro-Russian hacker group CyberBerkut claims attack on German government websites Read More
Working day and night, as reported by Ukrainian news resource TSN.UA, Ukrainian cyber forces and individual pro-Ukrainian hackers have maintained online attacks on all Internet resources linked to insurgents in the eastern part of the country, whom the Kyiv (Kiev) government deems as terrorists. As of early November, the cyber forces claimed to have downed …
Pro-Ukrainian cyber forces take down 46 separatist sites and target online money accounts Read More
Prominent Ukrainian entrepreneur Alexander Olshansky and partners have opened a business incubator in Ukraine called Voenkubator, which can be translated as “Armincubator.” The project is planned exclusively to develop startups that show promise for the military and intelligence fields, Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA reports. Voenkubator targets startups that develop information processing and retrieval, image processing, monitoring …
Alexander Olshansky launches military startup incubator Read More
In the former USSR countries, criminal activities with stolen credit cards have created a market of $680 million. This accounts for 27% of the total high-tech crime market, says a report released by Russian cyber security firm Group-IB, covering the period from July 2013 and June 2014. The analysts say that today “Russian-speaking hackers are still …
