Cybersecurity firms have urged organisations to improve their defences as the prospect rises of a surge of cyber-attacks as part of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
“We are seeing a huge spike in the amount of new infrastructure deployed by the APT [advanced persistent threat] group known as Gamaredon, Armageddon or ACTINIUM,” Costin Raiu, director for global research and the analysis team of cybersecurity giant Kaspersky, told the Bangkok Post. “This group has been actively targeting Ukraine in past years and is probably the most active APT group in the area at the moment.”
APT is a term used for an attack in which intruders establish an illicit, long-term presence on a network to mine highly sensitive data. Kaspersky also noticed an uptick in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, website defacements and hacks, Mr Raiu said.
Current cyberwarfare in Ukraine…
