Russian hackers targeted Ukrainian activists and supporters in a new identity hunting campaign

A new identity hunting campaign with Ukrainian -friendly Russian citizens and informants, whose goals are Antiguerra activists, are collecting active and sensitive data to the cyber security company Silent Push, a warned on 27 Thursday. The action is supported by the Kremlin Intelligence Service.

According to the report, those responsible for malicious transactions use false sites passing through four beings. One of them is the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States (CIA)Encourages Russian citizens to share anonymous hidden information on official Darknet pages.

The Legion of Russia’s freedom is another organization among the targets of cyber criminals. The group launched an X -Alert on the 14th day (above) on the 14th day (above) by contacting supporters about the fraudulent website activated during the campaign and sharing the address of the official channels in Telegram.

This new identity hunting campaign created the false pages of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), a paramilitary group that helped Ukrainian troops in conflict, and Hochuzhit, a direct support line for the Russian army who did not want to participate in the war. Pages active since January.

How does the ID Hunt Campaign Work?

Identity hunt is a kind of cyber attack based on social engineering to manipulate the victim. Share hidden data, download malicious programs or payOther actions. For this purpose, authors can use fake e -mails, short messages, phone calls or fraudulent sites as in this case.

According to researchers, Russian cyber criminals were created Sites that mimic the legitimate pages of CIA and other related organizations. In the case of American intelligence service, they manipulated the content of Youtube and changed official connections to provide more reliability to the coup.

All these fake pages have buttons such as “Entre” or “Entre here” inviting the Netizen to step beyond the main screen. By clicking on them, visitors are directed to Google Forms, which is alleged to be correct, but operated by cyber criminals.

In entering the requested information, believing that they have communicated with the organizations, the victims share their secret data with the group behind the malicious campaign. These records can be used in different ways, such as the implementation of scammers or even contributing to the supervision of citizens.

Demonstrations against war in Russia illegal

The Russian government forbids all kinds of Antiguera action in the country and Citizens who show themselves in contradiction with the occupation of Ukraine.. Due to the proper content display of Kiev on Youtube, Google is not allowed even protests in a digital environment, which already produces fines.

Considering this, the report proposes Russia’s participation in the identity hunt campaign of intelligence services, because such an operation friendly Russian individuals will allow us to watch Ukraine. Other threat agents with similar motives may also be behind the action.

In addition, the company claims that it has identified evidence of the known behavior of cyber criminals supported by the Russian government present in this ongoing identity hunting, and that there are increasing doubts about the origins of possible writers.

“Silent Push believes that all areas related to the Russian intelligence agency can offer some risk.”

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