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MULTIPLE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT WEBSITES HACKED AND DEFACED
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BILL TOULAS
* January 14, 2022
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At least 15 websites belonging to various Ukrainian public institutions were
compromised, defaced, and subsequently taken offline.
This includes the websites of the ministry of foreign affairs, agriculture,
education and science, security and defense, and the online portal for the
cabinet of ministers.
The defacement messages were posted in Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish, warning
the sites' visitors that all citizen data uploaded to the public network had
been compromised.
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At the time of writing this, some of the websites remain inaccessible as the
country's IT specialists are still in the process of restoring them.
The Ukrainian cyber-police has also posted an announcement where they underline
that no personal data was compromised due to these attacks and that the warning
messages to visitors were false and only meant to scare citizens.
"In order to prevent the spread of the attack on other resources and
localization of the technical problem, the work of other government sites was
temporarily suspended," explains the police announcement (translated).
"Currently, the Cyberpolice Department together with the State Special
Communications Service and the Security Service of Ukraine are collecting
digital evidence and identifying those involved in the cyber attacks."
Sources have told journalist Kim Zetter that all 15 compromised Ukrainian sites
were using an outdated version of the October CMS, vulnerable to CVE-2021-32648.
This is a critical (CVSS: 9.1) authentication flaw allowing an attacker to send
a specially crafted request to perform a password reset on the platform, thus
taking over admin accounts.
This vulnerability was fixed with build 472 version 1.1.5, released in August
2021, but it appears that several Ukrainian government websites hadn't applied
the security updates.
A later advisory from the Ukraine cyber-police confirmed Zetter's reporting of
the October CMS vulnerability as the intrusion vector.
POLAND IMPACTED TOO?
Today, after Ukraine had acknowledged their attacks, the Polish Ministry of
National Defense also announced that some of their databases containing
sensitive military information were compromised.
The Ministry underlines that it's not sure whether the accessed database
contained test files or actual data, and investigations are still ongoing.
However, members of the local press speak with certainty about the validity of
the leaked files and the link to the Ukrainian cybersecurity incident.
ACTORS UNKNOWN
The cyber-police has opened criminal proceedings under Article 361 (unauthorized
interference with computers and computer networks), but the actors remain
unknown.
Polish people noticed obvious grammatical errors in the messages posted on the
defaced pages and claimed this was the product of Yandex translation. As such,
the actor could be Russian.
Even though Ukraine is going through extreme tensions with Russia, website
defacement acts aren't the typical attack method of a Russian state-sponsored
hacking group like GRU.
However, researchers theorize that the attacks could have been conducted by the
GhostWriter APT hacking group, which has a history of targeting government
entities in Poland and Ukraine.
In November, Mandiant released a report linking the Ghostwriter group to
the Belarusian government.
"UNC1151 has targeted a wide variety of governmental and private sector
entities, with a focus in Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Germany,"
explains a report by Mandiant.
The targeting also includes Belarusian dissidents, media entities, and
journalists. While there are multiple intelligence services that are interested
in these countries, the specific targeting scope is most consistent with
Belarusian interests."
Also, yesterday, the Ukrainian cyberpolice announced the arrest of five
ransomware affiliates responsible for over 50 attacks against companies
worldwide.
The chances of this wave of defacements being a retaliative act are slim, as the
messages don't mention anything relevant.
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and Linux enthusiast, is currently finding pleasure in following hacks, malware
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