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    President Biden has been given a list of options to cyber attack Russia on the behalf of Ukraine.

    Biden Given Russia Cyberattack Options, Including Internet, Transportation Interruptions

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    Anonymous hacks unsecured printers to send anti-war messages across Russia


    Anonymous has carried out a mass “Print Attack” in which it has sent over 100,000 print copies to Russian citizens with messages against war and how to bypass censorship in the country.

    Anonymous hacktivists are compromising vulnerable and misconfigured printers across Russia and sending print copies to users with anti-war messages. The modus operandi of this attack is similar to the one that Anonymous used last month in which the group hacked misconfigured cloud databases owned by businesses in Russia and left messages against the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

    40,000+ Copies Printed Sent

    The details of the attack were shared by one of the Anonymous affiliated groups with Hackread.com according to which as of Sunday, March 20th, 2022, the group had targeted 160 devices and printed over 40,000 copies with anti-war and “anti-propaganda” messages in the Russian language.

    The printed copies also explained how users can bypass censorship in Russia by using the Tor browser. It is worth noting that the Russian government has blocked Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, BBC News, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, Bellingcat, Amnesty International, Meduza.io, Ukrayinska Pravda, Interfax-Ukraine, Radio Free Liberty, etc. since the invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, 24th February 2022.
    The printers were misconfigured, and manually forwarded on the Russian routers. In every case we have reviewed, the port was deliberately forwarded.

    PDFs Printed with Anti-Propaganda Messages

    In a conversation with Anonymous, Hackread.com was told that the hacked printers were forced to print PDFs with a message informing Russians that “their president, the government, and media all have been feeding them lies.”

    Anonymous sides with Ukraine

    It is no secret that Anonymous has sided with Ukraine over the ongoing conflict between two countries. The group has so far targeted the government and the private sector to spread its message. The list and timeline of some of the cyberattacks reported by Hackread.com are as follow:






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    18% of businesses affected by cybersecurity incidents last year: StatCan


    A new Statistics Canada report says 18 per cent of Canadian businesses were impacted by cybersecurity incidents last year, down from 21 per cent in 2019, as they spent more money to prevent attacks.

    The report found 16 per cent of small businesses, 25 per cent of medium-sized businesses and 37 per cent of large businesses reported being affected by cybersecurity incidents in 2021.

    Statistics Canada said Tuesday businesses most commonly faced attempts to steal money or demand ransom payments and efforts to steal personal or financial data.

    Sixty-one per cent of affected businesses identified external parties as the perpetrator of cybersecurity incidents, while 38 per cent could not identify the perpetrator.

    The percentage of businesses that reported spending money to detect or prevent cybersecurity incidents remained relatively the same in 2021, at 61 per cent, compared with 62 per cent in 2019.

    However, the amount of money Canadian businesses spent to detect or prevent cybersecurity incidents increased by roughly $2.8 billion in 2021 to $9.7 billion when compared with 2019, Statistics Canada said.

    Large businesses spent $4.4 billion, small businesses spent $2.9 billion and medium-sized businesses spent $2.4 billion last year.

    Businesses that were hit with a cybersecurity incident spent a total of slightly more than $600 million to recover, an increase of about $200 million dollars from 2019.

    The report also found that many companies have been implementing policies and procedures to mitigate risks.

    More than six in 10 businesses had at least one employee responsible for overseeing cybersecurity risks and threats as of 2021, almost four in 10 had a consultant or contractor to manage threats, and almost one-third had monthly or more frequent updating of operating systems.

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    Top US cybersecurity agency hacked and forced to take some systems offline


    A federal agency in charge of cybersecurity discovered it was hacked last month and was forced to take two key computer systems offline, an agency spokesperson and US officials familiar with the incident.

    One of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s affected systems runs a program that allows federal, state and local officials to share cyber and physical security assessment tools, according to the US officials briefed on the matter. The other holds information on security assessment of chemical facilities, the sources said.

    A CISA spokesperson said in a statement that “there is no operational impact at this time” from the incident and that the agency continues to “upgrade and modernize our systems.”

    “This is a reminder that any organization can be affected by a cyber vulnerability and having an incident response plan in place is a necessary component of resilience,” the spokesperson said, adding that the impact from the hack “was limited to two systems, which we immediately took offline.”
    The two systems run on older technology that was already set to be replaced.

    Part of the Department of Homeland Security, CISA investigates cyber intrusions at federal agencies and advises private critical infrastructure firms on how to bolster their security.

    The Record first reported on the hack.

    It was not immediately clear who was behind the hack, but it occurred through vulnerabilities in popular virtual private networking software made by Utah-based IT firm Ivanti. For several weeks, CISA has urged federal agencies and private firms to update their software or take other defensive measures in response to widespread exploitation of Ivanti vulnerabilities by hackers.
    Among the hackers exploiting the flaws are a Chinese group focused on espionage.

    While there is some irony in it, even cybersecurity agencies or officials can be victims of hacking. After all, they rely on the same technology that others do. The US’ top cybersecurity diplomat Nate Fick said last year that his personal account on social media platform X was hacked, calling it part of the “perils of the job.”

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