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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Is Facebook’s moderation team pro-Russian? Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and Mark Zuckerberg in person got involved in the controversy last week after thousands of Ukrainian users accused the social network of taking down or blocking posts and accounts from Ukraine. These takedowns were politically motivated and the posts were being reported for violations by masses of “Kremlin …
Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) was initially aiming to shut down five websites that had been allegedly spreading pro-Russian views about the conflict in Ukraine. Instead, they ended up crushing thousands of other websites, halting business and other activities of the Ukrainian segment of the Internet. In an attempt to block five allegedly anti-Ukrainian websites, …
Ukraine’s security service takes down 30,000 websites to fight “pro-Russian propaganda” Read More
The Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine has just launched I-ARMY.ORG, a site for enrolling people in the “information forces of Ukraine.” In order to join the online army, users must register their email in the system, which will allow them to begin receiving daily tasks in their inbox. At the moment, the site solely functions …
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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 …
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The internet troll army’s selling of the Kremlin’s parallel universe to the Russian people and to a skeptical Western audience is a matter of life and death for the Putin regime. If the Russian people do not buy their story, Putin loses the high “ratings” on which his regime rests. If he cannot convince his …
Putin’s new weapon in the Ukraine propaganda war: Internet trolls Read More
