Ukraine
Ukraine dismantles crypto scam network that stole €4.3 million
Ukrainian law enforcement arrested four suspects in a case involving the theft of more than €4.3 million using a network of cryptocurrency investment scam call centers. In these fraud schemes (also known as romance baiting or pig butchering scams), criminals lure targets through social media, dating sites, and messaging apps into fake investment schemes, stealing […]
Nefilim and Hive ransomware affiliate gets 70 months in prison
A Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in Nefilim and Hive ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government entities, and high-revenue businesses worldwide between 2018 and 2021. The sentence follows the extradition of 35-year-old Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak to the United States on April 30, 2025, after authorities arrested him in Spain […]
Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files
Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. Yandex customers are experiencing service outages, some of them reporting inability to access files stored on the company’s cloud infrastructure. The impacted data centers are in Sasovo (hit on […]
Conti ransomware gang member sentenced to 4 years in prison
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022. 44-year-old Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko was arrested by the Irish national police (An Garda Síochána) in July 2023 at the request of the United States and was extradited last year. Lytvynenko and his Conti […]
Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash
Authorities in Ukraine shut down 94 fraudulent call centers across the country that lured people into investment scams or tried to obtain access to bank accounts. The operation occurred this week, and police officers conducted a total of 411 searches following an investigation that involved the National Police, Ukraine’s Security Service, the Prosecutor General’s Office, […]
Hackers abuse Notepad++ plugins to stealthily install malware
Ukraine’s CERT has uncovered attacks distributing an archive containing the legitimate Notepad++ application and a malicious utility called LunchPoke disguised as a plugin to establish persistence. The campaign has been attributed to a threat cluster tracked as UAC-0099, which primarily targets organizations in Ukraine and has previously been linked to providing initial access for attacks […]
GreyVibe hackers use ChatGPT, Gemini to power cyberattacks
A likely Russian threat group tracked as GreyVibe has been using AI-generated lures and a rich set of custom malware tools to target entities in the military, government, civilian, and business sectors. The cyberespionage campaign has been active since at least August 2025 and appears to align with Russian state interests, although researchers cannot confidently […]
Ukraine identifies infostealer operator tied to 28,000 stolen accounts
The Ukrainian cyberpolice, working in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement, has identified an 18-year-old man from Odesa suspected of running an infostealer malware operation targeting users of an online store in California. According to the Ukrainian police, the threat actor used information-stealing malware between 2024 and 2025 to infect users’ devices and steal browser sessions […]
Hackers arrested for hijacking and selling 610,000 Roblox accounts
The Ukrainian police have arrested three individuals who hacked more than 610,000 Roblox gaming accounts and sold them for a profit of $225,000. The arrests were made by the police in Lviv after conducting ten searches on targeted locations, seizing $35,000 in cash, 37 mobile phones, 11 desktop computers, seven laptops, five tablets, and four […]
New AgingFly malware used in attacks on Ukraine govt, hospitals
A new malware family named ‘AgingFly’ has been identified in attacks against local governments and hospitals that steal authentication data from Chromium-based browsers and WhatsApp messenger. The attacks were spotted in Ukraine by the country’s CERT team last month. Based on the forensic evidence, targets may also include representatives of the Defense Forces. CERT-UA has attributed […]