This information was provided by the British paper "The Guardian", citing data from British intelligence services. According to the findings of the British National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC), the Russian military intelligence unit GRU, numbered 26165 since 2022 has conducted organized cyber attacks on Internet-connected surveillance systems.
The aim of these activities was, among another things, to track down the routes which were being moved to Ukraine by humanitarian aid. Hackers did not gain access to full video records, but only to individual image frames.
According to The Guardian, close military facilities and railway stations, Russian hackers have accessed about 10,000 cameras to monitor the aid movement. Of these, 80% were in Ukraine, 10% in Romania, 4% in Poland, 2.8% in Hungary and 1.7% in Slovakia. The exact locations of the hacked cameras have not been revealed.
400 cameras in Poland hacked by Russian military intelligence
However, the GRU unit did not limit itself to attacks on the camera. There have besides been hacks into email boxes where personalized phishing messages were sent. These e-mails included pornography and false information to extort passwords and access online systems. The messages were written in the recipient's native language and addressed individually to circumstantial individuals.
A informing about Russian attacks was issued by Britain in cooperation with Poland, the USA, Germany, the Czech Republic, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France and the Netherlands. NCSC announced strengthening network monitoring and updating online safety in the close future.
