Ukraine’s Pc Emergency Response Workforce (CERT-UA) said in a report printed over the weekend {that a} hacking group has been focusing on the nation’s protection and army corporations with phishing assaults.
The CERT recognized the hacking group as UAC-0185 — also called UNC4221 — with out saying who was behind the group. Earlier this yr, nonetheless, a cybersecurity firm linked that group to the Russian authorities.
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The hackers have been sending emails pretending to be the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE), which calls itself “Ukraine’s largest union of enterprise organizations and financial brokers.” The emails have been designed to seem like an invite to an actual convention that came about in Kiev final week, and have been despatched forward of the convention, in line with CERT-UA.
The hackers are focusing on staff working for Ukraine’s protection contractors and protection forces, per CERT-UA.
Cybersecurity publication The Report has more details about this hacking marketing campaign and group.
