Report: Russia Is Using Ukraine To Test Its New Cyber Weapons

Forbes: Russia Unleashes New Weapons In Its ‘Cyber Attack Testing Ground’: Report

“Ukraine is, by and large, a Russian cyber attack testing ground,” Vitali Kremez tells me. The head of SentinelLabs has just penned a new report into the actions Russian cyber threat group “Gameredon” is taking against Ukraine, and the wider implications of this. “We assess with high confidence,” Kremez says, “that the Russian targeting and approach towards Ukraine is preparatory and will be replicated across other targets related to the Russian government.”

Kremez is using his report to call out an escalation in cyber espionage attacks on strategic Ukrainian targets—security, military and government related. The attacks are using newly modified Windows malware, likely to be the “preparatory stage” for a full cyber attack. Malware that is designed to collect and return data, seeking instructions from a remote command and control server. The new report claims this cyber campaign has now hit as many as five thousand “unique” entities in Ukraine.

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Update: Russia Unleashes New Weapons In Its 'Cyber Attack Testing Ground': Report (InCyberDefense)

WNU Editor: SentinelLabs report is here .... Pro-Russian CyberSpy Gamaredon Intensifies Ukrainian Security Targeting.