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Infosecurity Magazine Home » News » Russian Cyber-Attacks Home in on Ukraine’s
Military Infrastructure


RUSSIAN CYBER-ATTACKS HOME IN ON UKRAINE’S MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE

News 23 Sep 2024


WRITTEN BY


KEVIN POIREAULT

Reporter, Infosecurity Magazine

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Russian-aligned threat actors are moving away from broad information stealing
campaigns across Ukraine to focus on cyber espionage targeting military
infrastructure, Ukraine authorities have found in their latest mid-year cyber
report.

Cyber-attacks against Ukraine’s security and defense sectors doubled between the
second half of 2023 (111) and the first half of 2024 (276), according to
analysis by Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information
Protection (SSSCIP).

In its Russian Cyber Operations (H1 2024) report, the SSSCIP observed that
Russian-aligned adversaries primarily focused on anything directly connected to
the theater of war and attacks on service providers during the first half of
2024.

Notably, five threat groups attributed to Russia, UAC-0184, UAC-0020, UAC-0149,
UAC-0200, and UAC-0180, were particularly active, using various versions of
remote access Trojans (RATs) and other malware to maintain and remotely control
compromised Windows computers belonging to members of the Ukrainian Defense
Forces.

This new strategy has evolved since 2022, when Russian threat actors primarily
attempted to dismantle IT infrastructures of organizations within the critical
infrastructure sector and exfiltrate databases and personal data details. Then,
in 2023, their main goal was to collect information across all Ukrainian
sectors.


19% RISE OF CYBER-ATTACKS TARGETING UKRAINE

The SSSCIP report also showed that overall registered cyber incidents amounted
to 1739 in the first half of 2024, a 19% rise compared to the previous reported
period.

However, this increase is mainly due to a boom in low - and medium-severity
incidents, while high- and critical-severity incidents decreased.

Finally, the report found that cyber adversaries targeting Ukraine have
increased their reliance on malware to conduct their campaigns, with 196
infections, including malicious software in the first half of 2024 from 103
during the previous period.

This trend is mainly due to an increased use of pirated software pre-packaged
with backdoors.

“We must also emphasize that providing licensed software such as Windows,
Office, EDR, MDM, SIEM, and IDM is critically important for both Ukrainian
military and civilian organizations to avoid vulnerabilities arising from
malware infections through unlicensed software,” the report concluded.

The report was based on data collected by CERT-UA, SOC-SSCIP, and other SSSCIP
cyber divisions.




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