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posted by janrinok on Saturday January 15 2022, @10:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the cyberpolish dept.

Ukraine is hit by a massive cyberattack that targeted government websites [Dated 14 Jan.]

Dozens of Ukrainian government sites have been hit by an ominous cyberattack, with hackers warning people to "be afraid and expect the worst."

The attack took over websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cabinet of ministers and security and defense council, posting a message on screens in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish that read: "Ukrainian! All your personal data was uploaded to the public network. All data on the computer is destroyed, it is impossible to restore it."

"All information about you has become public, be afraid and expect the worst. This is for your past, present and future," the hackers said.

"As a result of a massive cyber attack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies are temporarily down," a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Twitter. "Our specialists have already started restoring the work of IT systems, and the cyberpolice has opened an investigation."

First on CNN: US intelligence indicates Russia preparing operation to justify invasion of Ukraine

The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion.

The official said the US has evidence that the operatives are trained in urban warfare and in using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces.

[...] The US intelligence finding comes after a week's worth of diplomatic meetings between Russian and Western officials over Russia's amassing of tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine's border. But the talks failed to achieve any breakthroughs, as Russia would not commit to de-escalating and American and NATO officials said Moscow's demands -- including that NATO never admit Ukraine into the alliance -- were non-starters.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @01:51PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @01:51PM (#1212909)

    If you are interested in Ukraine, this recent journal entry is worth a look:
    [quietus] Roots of the Ukraine/Russia conflict

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @06:31PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @06:31PM (#1212967)

    Worth a look? That journal entry is just a copy of an article written by Vladimir Putin himself. Literally Putin himself!

    Sheesh...

    • (Score: 2) by quietus on Saturday January 15 2022, @07:06PM (2 children)

      by quietus (6328) on Saturday January 15 2022, @07:06PM (#1212977) Journal

      And posted on the Kremlin website. The Kremlin website itself! Sheesh ...

      Should I quote Sun Tzu here (Know Thy Enemy and such) -- I read somewhere them Marines have to study it, in officer training ...

      (Putin makes a number of valid points; the way the article is set up, its referencing and conclusions give some insight into Russia's thinking. Well worth a read.)

      Oh, and shameless plug here [soylentnews.org].

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:59PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:59PM (#1213229)

        Yes it is good to get insight into your enemy's thinking, but two big problems.

        1. It is propaganda

        2. You label it as fact "Roots of the Ukraine/Russia conflict"

        Soylent News: now home to agitprop.

        • (Score: 2) by quietus on Tuesday January 18 2022, @02:25PM

          by quietus (6328) on Tuesday January 18 2022, @02:25PM (#1213578) Journal
          1. It is a viewpoint, citing a historical context which can be verified.
          2. My previous journal entry had the title US Responsible for COVID-19. Do you also assume that as a fact, merely because it's in the title?

          Note that the primary cause of the chain of events which led to the first and second world war was a historical dispute over a small piece of land you've never heard about, called Schleswig-Holstein [wikipedia.org]. It is well advised, therefore, to take all these historical references seriously.