Cyber ​​attack on the largest mobile phone operator in Ukraine

Kyivstar, the largest mobile phone operator in Ukraine, which has 24.3 million mobile phone subscribers and more than 1.1 million home internet users, was the target of an attack on Tuesday, according to the report of Fars International News Agency. cyber was placed; The attack that knocked out the operator’s services damaged Ukraine’s information technology infrastructure, disabling air raid warning systems in parts of Ukraine.

The Solntsepyok hacking group. In a post he published on the Telegram messenger, he took responsibility for this cyber attack and published images as documents and evidence of the access of the hackers of this group to the servers of the Kiev Star operator.

According to “Reuters” news agency, Russia has repeatedly denied its involvement in such cyber attacks. This country’s Internal Intelligence Agency (SBU) reported about this cyber attack.

This organization claimed referring to the Russian Military Intelligence Agency (GRU). : “The responsibility of this cyber attack was assumed by one of the Russian groups whose activities are related to the main department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.”

This Ukrainian organization did not mention the name of the group. who accepted responsibility for this cyber attack claimed: “This incident once again confirms Russia’s use of cyber space as one of the domains of war against Ukraine.”

Information and Communications Protection Organization A few months ago, the Ukrainian government claimed that the Solntsepyok hacker group is a representative of a Russian hacker group called Sandworm, which previously claimed to be connected to the Russian military intelligence agency.

The Solntsepyok hacker group In his post on the Telegram messenger, he thanked what he called “relevant colleagues” at the Kiev Star company. It has opened the door for those who have committed treason.

In the post of this hacker group, it was written: “We attacked the Kyiv Star company because this company supplies telecommunications to the armed forces of Ukraine and the security and government institutions of this country. We warn other departments that help the armed forces of Ukraine to prepare themselves!”

The attack did not affect the communications of the Ukrainian military, a source close to the Kyiv Star company told Reuters.

The Solntsepyok group stated in its telegram post that more than 10,000 computers and 4,000 servers were destroyed in a cyber attack on Kiev Star along with its cloud storage unit and backup systems.

Kief Star Company denied this statement in a post on the X social network.

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