Day: June 14, 2024

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The document provides for security and defence assistance, help with reconstruction efforts, as well as support in other areas, from cybersecurity to countering Russian disinformation campaigns.

The deal will see the US provide Ukraine with a range of military aid and training over the next decade, while Zelensky said it would act as a bridge for his country to membership in NATO.

Early this week, the City of Cleveland suffered a cyber attack that impacted multiple services. The City is working to restore impacted systems.

On Monday, the City of Cleveland announced it was the victim of a cyber attack and was forced to take some of its systems offline to contain the threat.

The City is still working to restore impacted services, it added that emergency services and utilities were not affected. The incident did not expose taxpayer information held by the CCA and customer information held by Public Utilities.

City Hall and Erieview will be closed for the entire week, the City Hall reopened only for the employees on June 12, 2024.

“Basic City services are functioning normally. Despite adapting to limited IT capabilities, public safety, public works, public utilities, and airport teams are actively working for City residents.” the City wrote on X, the platform used to provide updates on the incident to the citizens.

The City of Cleveland is investigating the incident with the help of law enforcement and key partners to determine the scope of the security incident.

The city did not share information about the attack; however, the shutdown of the IT systems in response to the incident suggests the involvement of ransomware. As of this writing, no ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Ukraine’s security service (SBU) detained two individuals accused of supporting Russian intelligence in spreading propaganda and hacking soldiers’ phones.

Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, detained two individuals who are accused of supporting Russian intelligence in spreading pro-Russia propaganda. They are also accused of hacking the phones of Ukrainian soldiers.

The arrests result from an investigation conducted by SBU officers in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense’s Intelligence Directorate and the National Police.

The SBU uncovered two bot farms in Zhytomyr and Dnipro that were spreading Russian propaganda and hacking soldiers’ phones. The bot farms spread Russian propaganda posing as Ukrainian citizens.

The SBU discovered that a Zhytomyr resident registered over 600 virtual mobile numbers and anonymous Telegram accounts that were used by Russian operatives. Then the accounts were sold or rented through Russian online platforms, the suspect received payments in cryptocurrency. According to the Ukrainian security service, Russian agents employed the numbers in phishing campaigns targeting Ukrainian military personnel to deliver spyware on their phones.

The second man (30), a Dnipro resident, registered nearly 15,000 fake social media and messenger accounts using Ukrainian SIM cards.

Then he sold the fake accounts on dark web forums to Russian intelligence. The Ukrainian authorities charged the man with violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

In July 2023, the Cyber ​​Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled a massive bot farm and seized 150,000 SIM cards.

A gang of more than 100 individuals used fake social network accounts to conduct disinformation and psychological operations in support of the Russian government and its narrative on the invasion of Ukraine.

The gang used a massive bot farm to distribute illegal content, personal data of Ukrainian citizens and commit frauds. 

The cyber police discovered that the group used special equipment and software to register thousands of bot accounts in multiple social networks. 

In August 2022, the Ukrainian cyber police (SSU) dismantled a massive bot farm composed of 1,000,000 bots that was spreading disinformation and Russian propaganda through social networks.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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