This was reported on the SBU’s website, with reference to the interview of the head of the SBU’s cybersecurity department, Ilya Vityuk, with the Ukrinform agency. “We are working to explain the suspicions within the scope of our legislation and then refer these cases to the International Criminal Court. War criminals must be tried at the international level.” – noted Ilya Vityuk.

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It was reported that an attack was carried out on “Kyivstar” Hacker group SandWorm, a full-time unit of the Russian GRU. According to the head of the Cyber ​​Security Agency, the Security Service of Ukraine is currently conducting a series of investigations into the systems affected by hackers and the damage caused. The special service also sent requests for additional information from international partners.

Ilya Vityuk emphasized that within the framework of criminal prosecution, the State Criminal Investigation Department (SBU’s Department for Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Field of Information Security) processed all participants of the criminal operation involved in this incident. attack.

Not only a specific hacker should be responsible for what has been done, but also at least the head of a military unit and the leadership of a special service that carries out subversive activities.
– says the president of DKIB.

He also emphasized that there are only three known cases in the world where hackers are suspected of cyber-attacking infrastructure. Moreover, one of them is exactly the result of the SBU.

A special priority in cyber defense is the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense, as attempts by the enemy to interfere with military systems occur regularly. In addition to cyber attacks, Russian special services are conducting IPSO to discredit the command of the Defense Forces, are trying to hack official pages in social networks and messengers, and also create dozens of fake pages of Oleksandr Syrskyi.

The enemy carries out similar discrediting attacks against SBU employees: threats of physical violence, letters with signs of recruitment and blackmail, etc. they take it.