Irish Embassy in Kyiv targeted by Russian state hackers in 'astonishing' attack that piggybacked on a diplomat's used car advertisement
The attempt to infiltrate the systems of a large number of embassies in the Ukrainian capital was uncovered by Unit 42 researchers from the cybersecurity company Palo Alto Network, which revealed details of the cybercrime last month.
The Cozy Bear hackers gained access illegally to the email server and repurposed the advertisement so it could be used for a phishing attack. When recipients followed a link allowing them to view better quality pictures of the BMW, it activated malware that operated invisibly in the background. This gave the hackers a means of accessing the IT systems in some of the diplomatic missions. It is unknown how many of the missions had their systems compromised by the attack.
The attack came to light when the Polish diplomat was contacted by a potential purchaser for his car, but stated a price that was lower than the one he had sought. The advertisement refashioned by the Russian hackers had reduced the price being sought for the car in order to get more people to open the email.
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