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There are three types of documented attacks, without it being possible to verify that they were ordered by the Kremlin, however, initiated on Russian territory or by companies allied with Russia.
In the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is a field that has been left aside: that of cyberattacks, something that for many experts can be considered a fourth battlefield.
For Michael Nagata, former lieutenant general of the United States Army, “history will end up showing that the most important and powerful thing that Russia has done during this period has nothing to do with its kinetic actions, but with the non-kinetic ones that occur mainly in The cyberspace. But they are, regardless of the medium, fundamentally influential in information operations that in many ways are more important than their armed might.
There are three types of documented attacks, without it being possible to verify that they were ordered by the Kremlin, however, initiated on Russian territory or by companies allied with Russia.
The first is the ‘DDoS’ or Distributed Denial of Service attack. All websites have a certain capacity to function with a number of online users. With that tool, web pages are filled with junk information from fake users, so when a real user wants to log in, they are denied access.
This was what happened a day before the invasion with the virtual sites of the Parliament, the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other Ukrainian state institutions. In turn, a day later, official Russian pages suffered the same attack.
Adam Meyers, Senior Vice President of Intelligence at Crowdstrike explains that these attacks “are intended to deny or degrade access to a web server or some other system. So they can basically be used to swamp traffic in a target environment so that legitimate requests can’t get through. They also fill the site with information to slow down the service and, whether it’s a web server or something else, they’ll make a series of requests that will consume a lot of resources on that system.”
Experts point out that this type of attack, beyond being disruptive, is not considered really dangerous. The opposite happens with the second type. It was something that, according to cybersecurity firms Symantec and Eset, was recorded a day earlier, but there is information of similar attacks since July 2021.
It is an attack with ‘Phising’ emails with which those responsible steal confidential information from people and in these emails they can also send what would be the third form of attack and that is the installation of a cleaning malware or malicious program, in this case called ‘Hermeticwiper’ that can block or completely erase the data stored on the computers where it is installed. It can even allow remote control of these computers to steal all the information or carry out various operations.
Meyers says that these attacks “consist of malware that will generally cause physical problems on a desktop: overwrite some of the data, overwrite some of the things that are related to the operating system and will effectively bring down that system. and they do the attack at scale, then they damage the target environment.”
“It can start with a phishing attack or a compromised account, or a vulnerable or misconfigured system. And once they get in, they get that initial foothold and what they do from there is they move on to other systems and, ultimately to servers where they can get the credentials and access they need.”
First modification:
There are three types of documented attacks, without it being possible to verify that they were ordered by the Kremlin, however, initiated on Russian territory or by companies allied with Russia.
In the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is a field that has been left aside: that of cyberattacks, something that for many experts can be considered a fourth battlefield.
For Michael Nagata, former lieutenant general of the United States Army, “history will end up showing that the most important and powerful thing that Russia has done during this period has nothing to do with its kinetic actions, but with the non-kinetic ones that occur mainly in The cyberspace. But they are, regardless of the medium, fundamentally influential in information operations that in many ways are more important than their armed might.
There are three types of documented attacks, without it being possible to verify that they were ordered by the Kremlin, however, initiated on Russian territory or by companies allied with Russia.
The first is the ‘DDoS’ or Distributed Denial of Service attack. All websites have a certain capacity to function with a number of online users. With that tool, web pages are filled with junk information from fake users, so when a real user wants to log in, they are denied access.
This was what happened a day before the invasion with the virtual sites of the Parliament, the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other Ukrainian state institutions. In turn, a day later, official Russian pages suffered the same attack.
Adam Meyers, Senior Vice President of Intelligence at Crowdstrike explains that these attacks “are intended to deny or degrade access to a web server or some other system. So they can basically be used to swamp traffic in a target environment so that legitimate requests can’t get through. They also fill the site with information to slow down the service and, whether it’s a web server or something else, they’ll make a series of requests that will consume a lot of resources on that system.”
Experts point out that this type of attack, beyond being disruptive, is not considered really dangerous. The opposite happens with the second type. It was something that, according to cybersecurity firms Symantec and Eset, was recorded a day earlier, but there is information of similar attacks since July 2021.
It is an attack with ‘Phising’ emails with which those responsible steal confidential information from people and in these emails they can also send what would be the third form of attack and that is the installation of a cleaning malware or malicious program, in this case called ‘Hermeticwiper’ that can block or completely erase the data stored on the computers where it is installed. It can even allow remote control of these computers to steal all the information or carry out various operations.
Meyers says that these attacks “consist of malware that will generally cause physical problems on a desktop: overwrite some of the data, overwrite some of the things that are related to the operating system and will effectively bring down that system. and they do the attack at scale, then they damage the target environment.”
“It can start with a phishing attack or a compromised account, or a vulnerable or misconfigured system. And once they get in, they get that initial foothold and what they do from there is they move on to other systems and, ultimately to servers where they can get the credentials and access they need.”
First modification:
There are three types of documented attacks, without it being possible to verify that they were ordered by the Kremlin, however, initiated on Russian territory or by companies allied with Russia.
In the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is a field that has been left aside: that of cyberattacks, something that for many experts can be considered a fourth battlefield.
For Michael Nagata, former lieutenant general of the United States Army, “history will end up showing that the most important and powerful thing that Russia has done during this period has nothing to do with its kinetic actions, but with the non-kinetic ones that occur mainly in The cyberspace. But they are, regardless of the medium, fundamentally influential in information operations that in many ways are more important than their armed might.
There are three types of documented attacks, without it being possible to verify that they were ordered by the Kremlin, however, initiated on Russian territory or by companies allied with Russia.
The first is the ‘DDoS’ or Distributed Denial of Service attack. All websites have a certain capacity to function with a number of online users. With that tool, web pages are filled with junk information from fake users, so when a real user wants to log in, they are denied access.
This was what happened a day before the invasion with the virtual sites of the Parliament, the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other Ukrainian state institutions. In turn, a day later, official Russian pages suffered the same attack.
Adam Meyers, Senior Vice President of Intelligence at Crowdstrike explains that these attacks “are intended to deny or degrade access to a web server or some other system. So they can basically be used to swamp traffic in a target environment so that legitimate requests can’t get through. They also fill the site with information to slow down the service and, whether it’s a web server or something else, they’ll make a series of requests that will consume a lot of resources on that system.”
Experts point out that this type of attack, beyond being disruptive, is not considered really dangerous. The opposite happens with the second type. It was something that, according to cybersecurity firms Symantec and Eset, was recorded a day earlier, but there is information of similar attacks since July 2021.
It is an attack with ‘Phising’ emails with which those responsible steal confidential information from people and in these emails they can also send what would be the third form of attack and that is the installation of a cleaning malware or malicious program, in this case called ‘Hermeticwiper’ that can block or completely erase the data stored on the computers where it is installed. It can even allow remote control of these computers to steal all the information or carry out various operations.
Meyers says that these attacks “consist of malware that will generally cause physical problems on a desktop: overwrite some of the data, overwrite some of the things that are related to the operating system and will effectively bring down that system. and they do the attack at scale, then they damage the target environment.”
“It can start with a phishing attack or a compromised account, or a vulnerable or misconfigured system. And once they get in, they get that initial foothold and what they do from there is they move on to other systems and, ultimately to servers where they can get the credentials and access they need.”
First modification:
There are three types of documented attacks, without it being possible to verify that they were ordered by the Kremlin, however, initiated on Russian territory or by companies allied with Russia.
In the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is a field that has been left aside: that of cyberattacks, something that for many experts can be considered a fourth battlefield.
For Michael Nagata, former lieutenant general of the United States Army, “history will end up showing that the most important and powerful thing that Russia has done during this period has nothing to do with its kinetic actions, but with the non-kinetic ones that occur mainly in The cyberspace. But they are, regardless of the medium, fundamentally influential in information operations that in many ways are more important than their armed might.
There are three types of documented attacks, without it being possible to verify that they were ordered by the Kremlin, however, initiated on Russian territory or by companies allied with Russia.
The first is the ‘DDoS’ or Distributed Denial of Service attack. All websites have a certain capacity to function with a number of online users. With that tool, web pages are filled with junk information from fake users, so when a real user wants to log in, they are denied access.
This was what happened a day before the invasion with the virtual sites of the Parliament, the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other Ukrainian state institutions. In turn, a day later, official Russian pages suffered the same attack.
Adam Meyers, Senior Vice President of Intelligence at Crowdstrike explains that these attacks “are intended to deny or degrade access to a web server or some other system. So they can basically be used to swamp traffic in a target environment so that legitimate requests can’t get through. They also fill the site with information to slow down the service and, whether it’s a web server or something else, they’ll make a series of requests that will consume a lot of resources on that system.”
Experts point out that this type of attack, beyond being disruptive, is not considered really dangerous. The opposite happens with the second type. It was something that, according to cybersecurity firms Symantec and Eset, was recorded a day earlier, but there is information of similar attacks since July 2021.
It is an attack with ‘Phising’ emails with which those responsible steal confidential information from people and in these emails they can also send what would be the third form of attack and that is the installation of a cleaning malware or malicious program, in this case called ‘Hermeticwiper’ that can block or completely erase the data stored on the computers where it is installed. It can even allow remote control of these computers to steal all the information or carry out various operations.
Meyers says that these attacks “consist of malware that will generally cause physical problems on a desktop: overwrite some of the data, overwrite some of the things that are related to the operating system and will effectively bring down that system. and they do the attack at scale, then they damage the target environment.”
“It can start with a phishing attack or a compromised account, or a vulnerable or misconfigured system. And once they get in, they get that initial foothold and what they do from there is they move on to other systems and, ultimately to servers where they can get the credentials and access they need.”