Ukrainian cyber officials warn of new wave of phishing attacks

Ukrainian officials warned Friday that Belarusian hackers are sending a wave of phishing emails targeting Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. “Mass phishing emails have recently been observed targeting private ‘i.ua’ and ‘meta.ua’ accounts of Ukrainian military personnel and related individuals,” Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team wrote in a Facebook post Friday. Both URLs belong to Ukraine-based email services. Once an account is compromised, hackers gain access to the target’s messages and their contact details, allowing them to send additional phishing emails …

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