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Cyber attacks on Ukraine: DDoS, new data wiper, cloned websites, and Cyclops Blink

February 24, 2022

This Thursday morning, Russia started its invasion on Ukraine and, As predicted, the attacks in the physical world have been preceded and accompanied by cyber attacks:

  • Renewed DDoS attacks have been launched against websites Ukrainian government agencies and banks
  • New data wiper malware has been discovered on Ukrainian computers, as well as machines in Latvia and Lithuania
  • Researchers have identified a web service hosting cloned copies of a number of Ukrainian government websites and the main webpage of the Office of the President, booby-trapped with malware

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