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Kremlin planning Champions League cyber attack - Wezuviy - 05-24-2018
The Russian government is preparing an enormous cyber attack targeting the Champions League final on Saturday, according to Ukrainian state security.
Talos Intelligence - the security arm of computer networking firm Cisco, which detected the attack - said it was releasing the information before their investigations are complete because of the urgency in preventing the attack.
Cisco has warned that hackers have infected at least 500,000 internet routers and storage devices with sophisticated state-developed malware in dozens of countries, with a focus on Ukraine.
The country's capital is hosting the Champions League final on Saturday night, with Liverpool facing Real Madrid.
In a statement, the Ukrainian security service said its experts "believe that the infection of hardware on the territory of Ukraine is preparation for another act of cyber aggression by the Russian Federation, aimed at destabilising the situation during the Champions League final."
Affected countries include the UK, Cisco's Martin Lee told Sky News, but the primary target for the hacking campaign was Ukraine.
The malware, which has been called VPNFilter by Cisco, could be used for espionage as well as to destroy the devices that it has infected.
This could cause havoc in Ukraine, a year after another "powerful" cyber attack on the country spread across the world, taking down Chernobyl's radiation monitoring system in the process:
https://news.sky.com/story/kremlin-planning-champions-league-cyber-attack-ukrainian-state-agency-claims-11383050
RE: Kremlin planning Champions League cyber attack - zorrophreak - 05-25-2018
Well to start that URL shortener is sketchy as fuck.
Russia loves screwing people over with computers and as it said there, its nothing new. I'm kinda surprised the Cisco found this first although I know Kaspersky probably knows already.
We'll see how its handled.
RE: Kremlin planning Champions League cyber attack - mothered - 05-25-2018
Aside from Barcelona and Manchester United, Real Madrid & Liverpool are both very high quality teams. This will attract an enormous crowd and coverage, hence the attackers specifically targeting the event.
It'll be eagerly awaiting the outcome of the attack (If any).
RE: Kremlin planning Champions League cyber attack - Vultra - 05-25-2018
Oh shit. I'm sure they're holding the event off or something if stuff like this occur. Would be sickening during a fucking game.
RE: Kremlin planning Champions League cyber attack - mothered - 05-27-2018
Well, It's all over now: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/26/real-madrid-liverpool-champions-league-final-match-report
Shame they won, I loathe Real Madrid.