Shortly before the invasion began, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces, and two major banks were rustled by a DDoS attack widely believed to involve Russian Intelligence, and as recently as Tuesday, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications service provider said it was targeted by a cyber attack which impacted phone and internet services for millions of Ukranians. GUR further claims internet traffic containing tax data on a nationwide scale “ended up” in the hands of Ukrainian military intelligence following the attack.Īs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine heads towards its 22nd month, GUR’s proclaimed hack marks the latest effort in a long-running exchange of cyber warfare. “The cyber attack by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine was another serious blow to the kremlin regime.” “According to experts, the paralysis of the Russian federal taxation service will last at least a month,” said GUR. While the attacks have not been publicly verified by the Russian media or tax service, GUR suggests Russia’s tax service has been “trying to restore” its operations for at least four days, and that it is “impossible to entirely resuscitate the tax system of the aggressor state.” “This means a complete destruction of the infrastructure of one of the main state bodies of terrorist Russia and numerous related tax data for a long period,” said GUR. The two cyber attacks are said to have “paralysed” communications between the central office headed in Moscow and 2,300 Russian territorial departments, as well as communications between the tax service and. These attacks allegedly saw pivotal configuration files “completely eliminated”, as well as an “entire database and its backup copies” destroyed. The military intelligence outfit further reported a second attack against Russian IT company which provides data centre services for the Russian federal tax service. GUR said all impacted servers were infected with malware during the purported hack. GUR said during the operation, military intelligence officers were able to break into a “well-protected” key central server of Russia’s federal taxation service, before spreading its efforts to more than 2,300 regional servers – an undisclosed number of which were housed in occupied territory in Crimea. “This time they attacked the tax system of the aggressor state.” “Cyber units of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine conducted another successful special operation in Russia,” said GUR. In a statement published Tuesday, Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) said cyber units of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence successfully conducted a “special operation” in Russia aimed at the aggressor state’s tax system. ![]() Ukraine’s military intelligence service claims it has infected thousands of servers with malware and destroyed an “entire database” in a major hack against Russia’s federal tax service.
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