Ukraine’s cyber spy chief says attack on Kyivstar should serve as a ‘big warning’ to the west
Investigating the cyber-attack on Ukrainian telecoms company Kyivstar’ is harder because of the wiping of the company’s infrastructure.
Illia Vitiuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) cybersecurity department, said he was “pretty sure” it was carried out by Sandworm, a Russian military intelligence cyberwarfare unit that has been linked to cyber-attacks in Ukraine and elsewhere, Reuters reports.
This attack is a big message, a big warning, not only to Ukraine, but for the whole western world to understand that no one is actually untouchable.
For now, we can say securely, that they were in the system at least since May 2023,
I cannot say right now, since what time they had … full access: probably at least since November.
After the major break there were a number of new attempts aimed at dealing more damage to the operator.
Speaking about drone detection, speaking about missile detection, luckily, no, this situation didn’t affect us strongly.
Continue reading…Ukraine’s cyber spy chief says attack on Kyivstar should serve as a ‘big warning’ to the westInvestigating the cyber-attack on Ukrainian telecoms company Kyivstar’ is harder because of the wiping of the company’s infrastructure.Illia Vitiuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) cybersecurity department, said he was “pretty sure” it was carried out by Sandworm, a Russian military intelligence cyberwarfare unit that has been linked to cyber-attacks in Ukraine and elsewhere, Reuters reports.This attack is a big message, a big warning, not only to Ukraine, but for the whole western world to understand that no one is actually untouchable.For now, we can say securely, that they were in the system at least since May 2023,I cannot say right now, since what time they had … full access: probably at least since November.After the major break there were a number of new attempts aimed at dealing more damage to the operator.Speaking about drone detection, speaking about missile detection, luckily, no, this situation didn’t affect us strongly. Continue reading…