#CYBER

Since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, there has been a significant increase in the intensity of hybrid attacks targeting Ukraine’s allies. From the Baltic States to Germany, Russian hacker groups, such as APT28, often linked to or directly supervised by officers from the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, are attempting to destabilize supporting nations by attacking governmental websites and servers through DDoS attacks, massive disinformation campaigns, or waves of emails warning of bomb threats in schools, for example.

Over the weekend, the websites of numerous Estonian government institutions were targeted by the largest wave of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks in the country’s history. The attacks, claimed by pro-Kremlin hackers, were reported by the Postimees newspaper on Monday.

A Polish parliamentary commission on Monday began investigating accusations of the previous government having illegally hacked phones of targets including political opponents, amid a growing scandal over the use of Pegasus spyware.