Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has issued a warning about Belarusian state-sponsored hackers targeting its military personnel and other individuals as part of a phishing campaign launched in the midst of Russia’s military invasion of the country.
“Recently, mass phishing emails have been observed targeting private ‘i.ua’ and’meta.ua’ accounts of Ukrainian military personnel and related individuals,” according to the CERT-UA. “Once the account is compromised, the attackers gain access to all messages via the IMAP protocol.”
Following that, the attacks use the victim’s address book contact information to spread the phishing messages to other targets.
The Ukrainian government blamed the activities on UNC1151, a Minsk-based threat actor whose “members are officers of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus.” In a subsequent update, the agency stated that the nation-state group also targets its own citizens while also targeting Russian entities –
Hacking Groups Take Sides
The development comes after a barrage of data wiper and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Ukrainian government agencies, while various hacking groups and ransomware syndicates use the chaos to take sides and expand their operations.
“The Anonymous collective is officially at war with the Russian government,” the decentralized hacktivist group tweeted, adding that it had “leaked the database of the Russian Ministry of Defense website.”
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