The Unian news service in Ukraine is reporting another potential hacker attack:
"Following on from last year’s massive cyber attack on Estonia’s computer systems when Russian hackers, purportedly funded by the FSB (the modern equivalent of the KGB), brought the country’s computer systems to its knees in response to the removal of Soviet statues and war memorials, it looks as if those same hackers with the same funding are about to launch a bigger attack covering all the Baltic countries, and this time it will extend to Ukraine, according to Computer Crime Research Center.
Once again, appeals in Russian Internet forums calling for all Russian hackers to unite and launch a large-scale attack on the computer networks of government institutions in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are on the increase, and now Ukraine is being included as a necessary target.
Those making the appeals, which many speculate are coming from the FSB again, state that Russian hackers are dissatisfied with “the way Russian-speakers are treated in Baltic countries,” and with the ban on the use of Soviet symbols.
Ukraine, however, is being targeted for slightly different reasons, and the appeals on Internet forums are citing the country as a target due to its NATO aspirations.
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Makes me wonder who is next ? --Baltic Camadian and Ukrainian Canadian organizations are automatically at risk too. We last saw this during and after the Orange Revolution when various Canadian organizations, who supported the democratic process in Ukraine came under hacker attack. I'd be making computer backups on a regular basis--Walter Derzko
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