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Snake was malware developed by the Federal Security Service of Russia.It was one of the most used tools by FSB's Center 16 and formed a part of the Turla toolset. [1] It saw use in at least 50 countries, being employed to collect data from government networks, diplomatic communication and research facilities.
In March 2014, a Russian cyber weapon called Snake or "Ouroboros" was reported to have created havoc on Ukrainian government systems. [55] The Snake tool kit began spreading into Ukrainian computer systems in 2010. It performed Computer Network Exploitation (CNE), as well as highly sophisticated Computer Network Attacks (CNA). [56]
Pro-Russian bot farm in Ukraine. Cyberwarfare is a component of the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014. [clarification needed] While the first attacks on information systems of private enterprises and state institutions of Ukraine were recorded during mass protests in 2013, Russian cyberweapon Uroburos had been around since 2005.
Russian hackers were inside Ukrainian telecoms giant Kyivstar's system from at least May last year in a cyberattack that should serve as a "big warning" to the West, Ukraine's cyber spy chief told ...
Sandworm is an advanced persistent threat operated by Military Unit 74455, a cyberwarfare unit of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. [3] Other names for the group, given by cybersecurity researchers, include APT44, [4] Telebots, Voodoo Bear, IRIDIUM, Seashell Blizzard, [5] and Iron Viking.
Researchers at computer security firm McAfee Labs discovered a lethal new cryptojacking malware called “WebCobra,” which steals victims’ computing power to mine the cryptocurrencies Monero ...
According to an article in The Economist, "it is not clear that agent.btz was designed specifically to target military networks, or indeed that it comes from either Russia or China." [ 8 ] An article in the Los Angeles Times reported that US defense officials described the malicious software as "apparently designed specifically to target ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 November 2024. Series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware 2017 Ukraine ransomware attacks Petya's ransom note displayed on a compromised system Date 27–28 June 2017 (2017-06-27 – 2017-06-28) Location Ukraine Other locations Russia Germany United States United Kingdom Spain India Poland ...