Items tagged with Ukraine

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Feb 26, 2016

U.S. Department Of Homeland Security Confirms Cyber Attacks Took Down Ukraine Power Grid In December

In late December, a major power outage killed utility services for a large swathe of people in the Western Ukraine. Shortly after the incident, a number of cyber security experts pointed the finger at hackers and claimed some nefarious digital activities took down the power grid, but nothing had been officially... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Fri, Aug 07, 2015

Mozilla Issues Urgent Patch To Protect Firefox Users From Ukrainian Data Vampires

If you’re a Firefox user, you should update your browser immediately. Mozilla was informed earlier this week by an astute Firefox user that a Russian news site was was using malicious advertisements to take advantage of an exploit in the browser when installed on Windows and Linux machines. The exploit takes... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Oct 14, 2014

Russian Hackers Use SandWorm Windows Zero-Day Exploit To Compromise NATO, EU, US Education, Ukraine

Zero-day exploits are a nightmare for end-users and vendors alike as both groups have to scramble to patch and resolve problems. Today, Microsoft got tagged with one of the worst types of disclosures -- not only is there a vulnerability in every single shipping version of Windows, the vulnerability has been exploited... Read more...