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Cyberattack on Ukraine’s state registers disrupts marriage registration, real estate deals

Category Details
Threat Actors Pro-Russian hacker group XakNet (suspected ties to GRU); potentially Sandworm group.
Campaign Overview Large-scale cyberattack disrupted Ukraine’s state registers, affecting essential services such as marriage registration, real estate transactions, and digital record access.
Target Regions Ukraine.
Methodology Likely initial access through phishing emails or insider threat (employee bribery); systematic, well-planned attack to delete primary and backup databases.
Products Targeted State databases for births, marriages, deaths, real estate, legal entities, property rights, and military draft deferment systems.
Malware Reference Not explicitly mentioned; details of specific malware not disclosed.
Tools Used Cyberattack methods possibly involving phishing and database deletion; systematic organization with advanced tactics.
Vulnerabilities Exploited Potential exploitation of human factors (phishing, insider threats).
TTPs Use of phishing emails; insider bribery; database deletion; targeting critical infrastructure; use of backups stored in external servers (e.g., Poland).
Attribution Likely Russian state-linked actors; GRU-associated groups such as Sandworm suspected.
Recommendations Strengthen database security, improve phishing awareness training, secure backups off-network, enhance insider threat monitoring, and deploy robust incident response plans.
Source The Record

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Source: The Record

Published on: December 27, 2024

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