Criminals exploit the reputation of the Ukraine World Congress, a well-known international non-governmental organization, and exploit the issue of Ukraine’s possible membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

CERT-UA experts discovered a malicious website at: hxxps://www.ukrainianworldcongress.infoIt was created to emulate the English version of the legal website of the Ukrainian World Congress (found at hxxps://ukrainianworldcongress.org/).

After investigating the fake web page, it was found to contain two potentially malicious documents in DOCX format, whose names referred to Ukraine and NATO. It is worth emphasizing that Opening these documents may lead to the unintentional installation of MAGICSPELL ransomware on the user’s device..

Given the thematic importance of these files, there is a possibility that this cyber attack is directly related to the NATO summit to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 11-12 July 2023.

Cyber ​​police eliminate bot farm

More than 4,000 bots have been discovered recently, acting in favor of the enemy in an attempt to discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces. There was also another network acting as DTEK. The perpetrators of this operation created a bot farm and registered about 500 anonymous accounts per day on social networks, messaging applications and online trading platforms. As a result, the cyber police succeeded in eliminating these large-scale bot farms working in favor of Russia.

Today, the malware threat is getting closer to computer users than ever before. Viruses can cause a range of problems, from stealing sensitive information to taking complete control of the device. But such programs do not just happen on a computer, they can be obtained from the Internet or in other ways. Earlier we talked about how to protect yourself from malware.