Russia may push its hackers to become more aggressive in the coming months, after being stymied by Ukrainian resistance both on the battlefield and in cyberspace, Microsoft says in new report.
and issued a patch to fix it. Mandiant, a cybersecurity company owned by Google, said Wednesday that the GRU had been using it to hack targets for months.
John Hultquist, Mandiant’s head of cyber intelligence, said that security professionals need to move swiftly to patch their systems, noting that such flaws can be used by a wide variety of hackers now that it has been made public. Concerns about Russia’s hacking capabilities persist, most notably with elections on the horizon in many countries.
The report warned that Russia likely has strong incentive to use cyber-enabled influence operations to meddle in the elections in a bid to undermine NATO and European Union support for Kyiv.that Russia’s cyber campaigns against Ukraine have been relatively lackluster so far, in part because the Kremlin likely only planned for its invasion to have quick success.
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