Pro-Russian hackers plan large-scale cyberattack on Ukrainian government
Pro-Russian hackers plan large-scale cyberattack on Ukrainian government (photo: Getty Images)
The pro-Russian hacker group NoName05716 has announced plans to launch a large-scale cyberattack on the Ukrainian government, reports The Guardian.
The hacker group claims to be preparing to attack the Ukrainian government with the help of other hacker groups 22C, Skillnet, CyberDragon, Federal Legion, People's Cyber Army, and Phoenix.
Cyberattacks have been a concern for Ukrainian officials since the beginning of the war, and the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group has formed an IT coalition of 12 countries.
Hacker attack on Kyivstar
On December 12, one of the major Ukrainian telecommunications companies, Kyivstar, suffered a major outage. The network was attacked by hackers, according to preliminary data, Russian. Law enforcers opened a criminal case under eight articles.
As a result of the outage, subscribers across the country reported a lack of mobile and internet service, and the company's website and application were down. In addition, the air raid warning system went down in a number of regions, and terminals did not work.
