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U.K. says Russian state hackers tried to access security cameras to monitor Ukraine aid shipments
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The Russian state-sponsored hacker group known as Fancy Bear hacked into security cameras in an effort to surveil Western aid deliveries to Ukraine and disrupt supplies routes, The Guardian reported on Thursday, citing the intelligence services of the U.K. and its allies.
The allegations are laid out in an advisory from the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre that was produced in cooperation with agencies from the U.S. and multiple European countries. It says that hackers from Fancy Bear have been carrying out the cyber campaign targeting public and private organizations in NATO member states since 2022.
The document alleges that hackers accessed both private security cameras and traffic cameras to track aid deliveries to Ukraine. In total, around 10,000 cameras were reportedly compromised, including ones near border crossings, military sites, and railway stations. Of these, 80 percent were located in Ukraine, 10 percent in Romania, four percent in Poland, 2.8 percent in Hungary, and 1.7 percent in Slovakia.
The hackers also took other steps to gather sensitive information on Western aid shipments to Kyiv, including train schedules and shipping manifests. According to the report, this included sending phishing emails containing pornography and fake documents, as well as stealing passwords to access internal systems.
The National Cyber Security Center urged private companies involved in delivering aid to Ukraine to “take immediate action to protect themselves.”
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