Ukraine and Eastern Europe Situation 20220301

At this point, it appears that Russian cyberaggression remains regionally focused on Ukrainian government interests, critical infrastructure, and emergency response in the region. In addition, email does not appear to be a significant vector. Recent analysis of spam subject lines – frequently indicative of future trends in social engineering – has been remarkably quiet in the use of the terms “Ukraine” and “Russia.” It is, however, noteworthy that recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in Ukraine leveraged the Mirai botnet, reinforcing Russia’s likely willingness to utilize underground crimeware resources to achieve aims beyond the highly targeted, frequently network-based attacks more commonly associated with Russian state actors.

Our teams will continue to monitor the situation and we will react as well as provide further updates as needed.

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