according to the magazine “the Republic”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become a target for hackers. have found the command computer incident response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and drew on the analysis in the specialized company at the end of December. The matter came to light only today.
Prevenity that monitors cyberbezpieczeństwem many government agencies, with the attack that exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, became one of the most famous hacking groups – APT28.
this Specifies the set of elements of attack – used to use malware, installation method etc..
– explained to us Yuri Burdach company Prevenity that were described in the books the attack.
APT28 is likely informal division of military intelligence of the Russian Federation.
Purchased the server
Hackers managed to access the server of the Ministry of foreign Affairs, located in one of the countries of South America. From there was sent to Warsaw, which, allegedly, was to contain “a statement of the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Alliance after the meeting of the NATO Council–Russia”. Contained an attachment infected with a trojan.
infection ultimately did not happen, how managed to avoid it, remain a mystery due to security issues.
Russia is not ready
Experts believe that Russia is not very well protected against such attacks. This is the opinion, in particular, the Supreme Chamber of Control:
the Activity of the state was paralyzed, first of all, the lack of a single decision-making centre that coordinates the activities of other government agencies, and passive expectation of a decision that has to offer the EU.
, – stated in the opinion issued by this organization.
Anna Streżyńska, the Minister of digitization, in October last year, reiterated these arguments, explaining the problems with the lack of funding. Streżyńska has estimated that the cost of urgent expenses related cyberbezpieczeństwem in 2017. is estimated at 60 million rubles.
– This is not a terrible expense, but we have no money (…) only a portion of this amount we were able to get within the go in the budget.
– said the head of the Agency of digitization.
According to Peter Trąbińskiego, expert, National Centre for Strategic Studies (NCSS) in the field of cybersecurity, the danger is that the issue of cybersecurity marginal role of the Ministry of Defence.
In other countries it is the Ministry competent for defence is active, if we are talking about cyberbezpieczeństwo – because of knowledge and access to more resources, including coercive measures. Institutions, civil are high partners. In Poland, quite the contrary.
– said the expert.
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