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Ukraine Says Belarusian Hackers Are Targeting Its Defense Forces (techcrunch.com) 29

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
Ukrainian cybersecurity officials have warned that Belarusian state-sponsored hackers are targeting the private email addresses of Ukrainian military personnel. From a report: Announcing the activity in a Facebook post, Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) said that a mass phishing campaign is targeting the private i.ua and meta.ua accounts belonging to Ukrainian military personnel. "After the account is compromised, the attackers, by the IMAP protocol, get access to all the messages," it added. "Later, the attackers use contact details from the victim's address book to send the phishing emails." CERT-UA has attributed the ongoing campaign to the UNC1151 threat group, which Mandiant formally linked to the Belarusian government in November 2021. Mandiant also linked the state-backed cyber-espionage group to the Ghostwriter disinformation campaign, which has been involved in spreading anti-NATO rhetoric and hack-and-leak operations throughout Europe. "The Minsk-based group 'UNC1151' is behind these activities. Its members are officers of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus," CERT-UA wrote.
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  • You can't use or trust mere email in such a situation. If internet still functioning comm with high grade encryption is fine but various things about email transfer are kind of a crap shoot, you can' count on end to end TLS

  • The US and the EU have stood up and told the world that they will only defend Democracy so long as that Nation has enough wealth to make it "worth their while" Let's face it, Fascism is the order of the day. "Democracy" doesn't mean shit, and you only have "rights" because it humors the elite to keep the idiot wage slaves complacent by giving them a reach around. Ukraine will fall, and the EU will see an even larger turn to the far right to expel and otherwise treat Ukrainian refugees as subhuman trash, an

  • Belarus served as a staging ground for Putin's forces, they might as well have declared on Ukraine along with him.

    Is there any real upside for Belarus?

    Other than eliminating the threat (to Lukashenko) of a neighbouring Democracy they don't have anything to gain, yet they're risking getting caught up in the backlash, not to mention getting caught up in a war if Russia's forces start collapsing back across the border.

    All I can think is that Lukasheko has resigned himself to being the "leader" of a full-fledge

    • Putin has been clear that his medium-term goal is to re-establish the Soviet Union, the USSR.

      Biden has been clear that the US isn't going to do anything to get in Putin's way.

      Belarus has two choices:
      A. Be friendly with their new boss
      B. Be killed by the new boss

      They aren't going to defeat Russia. They can either go along go dead.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Klaxton ( 609696 )

        NATO has made it clear that an attack on any of the members will result in an immediate and effective defense.

        • Biden has made it very clear that he's going to make his move in Ukraine as economically painful for Russia as he possibly can.

          He also said that if Russian or Belarussian feet even move an inch across the Polish border, he's going to wipe him off the map. He did so by publicly and succinctly spilling a ton of normally secret info about the intel they had gathered on Putin's plans, which Putin did not expect him to know. Pretty harrowing experience for a paranoid guy like Putin.

          He may not be beating his ches

          • I hope you're right. I don't think you are, but I hope so.

            > strategic weaponry is getting flown into Warsaw as we speak. Strategic weaponry, not small arms, he put nukes on Putin's doorstep and he was not coy about it.

            Where are you reading this?
            The US sent some anti-tank missiles. Those are very much not nukes.

    • Belarus has basically been turned into a vassal state. Lukashenko was propped up and the election stolen on his behalf by Putin, just like Yanukovych before he got ousted. Putin's preferred method of operation is installing puppet governments that he more or less has complete control of. Lukashenko is literally one of his lap dogs, he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union all through the 80's and up until the collapse and is "Independent" now. Putin serves as a Chairman of the Council of M

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  • I forget that Belarus is a place altogether. They are that forgettable and have nothing to offer. These hackers really shouldn't be able to get this far. They aren't good at it. They're all essentially script kiddies - even at the state level.

  • Just as a data point to this, there's been an uptick in IMAP4-based password-spray attacks against email accounts coming from a wide swath of RU and RU-influenced CIDRs today. Likely the plan is to compromise lots of email accounts to send propaganda from. Old-school is still the best school...

  • What would happen if NATO, rather than resisting Russia, decided to attack Belarus?

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