The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detected and stopped another informational diversion of the Russian special services aimed at obtaining illegal access to personal data of citizens of Ukraine and proprietary information of public bodies.

While dealing with informational aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the SBU detected malicious software that Russian intelligence services used to obtain unauthorized access to the sensitive information.

Personal and official mailboxes of Ukrainian citizens were spammed with messages with a link to a sort of important information “about separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions”. Email subjects and sender addresses constantly changed. In particular, one of such emails allegedly contained an aggregate list of hostages held by terrorists.

In fact, those emails contained a link to a file infected by a harmful virus, which could provide full control over the infected computer. It was established, that direction of these attacks was performed from a single control center that belongs to Russian special services.

“We repulsed this informational attack. But it is necessary to be prepared that that was not the last one. We should consider that during development of new versions of malicious software Russian special services would use methods of psychological sabotage. Because the first reaction of any normal person who had received an email with such a subject would be to open it in order to rush to help. This is their cynical intention”, said Markiian Lubkivskyi.

“The SBU urges people to be vigilant, pay attention to the sender address, delete suspicious emails, and report such cases of distribution of fake emails to law enforcement agencies”, he emphasized.

Source: СБУ відбито чергову інформаційно-психологічну атаку російської спецслужби