According to the deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the UNC1151 group was involved in the attack. It uses methods similar to those used by the APT 29 hackers, which the US believes are connected to Russia.
Kiev believes that the attack on the websites of Ukrainian state institutions, which occurred on the night of January 14, was carried out by a hacker group associated with the intelligence of Belarus, declared Reuters Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Serhiy Demedyuk, who previously headed the Cyber Police.
According to him, the hackers used malware similar to that used by another group that was associated with Russian intelligence. We are talking about APT 29 (Cozy Bear), Demedyuk said. In the United States, she was accused of hacking into the servers of the Democratic National Committee in 2016.
According to him, UNC1151 was behind Friday’s attack, and their actions were just a front for larger-scale sabotage.
“Changing the appearance of the sites was just a front for more destructive actions that were hidden and the consequences of which we will feel in the near future,” he explained.
The Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council said that UNC1151 had previously carried out cyber attacks against Ukraine, as well as the structures of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.
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