About 400 cameras in Poland were hacked by Russian military intelligence to spy on and disrupt the transport of humanitarian aid from western countries to Ukraine – the Guardian newspaper, citing British intelligence services, reported.
The UK and its allies, including Poland and the US, issued a informing against Russian-paid cyber campaigns against humanitarian organisations that supply support to Ukraine.
The British National Cyber safety Centre (NCSC) revealed the activities of the Russian unit GRU 26165 (Chief Intelligence Board), which included attacks on cameras connected to the net at border crossing points, as well as close military installations. They were most likely both private cameras and city monitoring.
As the British diary writes, close "military facilities and railway stations The Russians have accessed about 10,000 cameras.to track the movement of aid to Ukraine", of which 80 percent were located Ukraine, 10% Romania, 4 percent in Poland, 2.8 percent. Hungary and 1.7%. in Slovakia. No location of hacked cameras. The attacks were to trust on access to individual movie frames, not continuous video recording.
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In addition, the GRU unit has been breaking into email boxes to sending letters - phishing news - containing pornography and false data to get accounts passwords And hack into net systems. Emails were usually written in the recipient's native language and directed exclusively to him.
A message by NCSC stated that the Russian attacks were besides intended to affect the defence sector, IT services, maritime transport, airports, ports and air traffic management systems in many NATO countries.
The informing was issued by the UK together with Poland, the USA, Germany, the Czech Republic, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France and the Netherlands. NCSC announced that network monitoring and online safety updates would be increased in the close future.
Source: PAP
