{"id":4859,"date":"2022-02-24T19:36:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/24\/russia-unleashed-data-wiper-virus-on-ukraine-say-cyber-experts\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:36:48","slug":"russia-unleashed-data-wiper-virus-on-ukraine-say-cyber-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/24\/russia-unleashed-data-wiper-virus-on-ukraine-say-cyber-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia unleashed data-wiper virus on Ukraine, say cyber experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK government and banks on alert for new form of malware said to have infected hundreds of machines<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/feb\/24\/russia-invades-ukraine-declares-war-latest-news-live-updates-russian-invasion-vladimir-putin-explosions-bombing-kyiv-kharkiv\">Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cyber experts have identified a new strain of computer-disabling malware unleashed on Ukrainian targets as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/feb\/24\/russia-invades-ukraine-declares-war-latest-news-live-updates-russian-invasion-vladimir-putin-explosions-bombing-kyiv-kharkiv\">Russia\u2019s offensive<\/a>, as the UK government and banks said they were on alert for online attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Russia was widely expected to launch a cyber assault alongside its military campaign, and the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine was marked by the deployment of a \u201cwiper\u201d virus. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which paralyses websites by bombarding them with spurious information requests, also hit Ukrainian government sites.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/24\/russia-unleashed-data-wiper-virus-on-ukraine-say-cyber-experts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/90561390364b92ac21ab8c10baffd3df0db4cad0\/0_204_6105_3663\/master\/6105.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ec79c8a4d35570ace6ab7e552e07092b\" title=\"Russia unleashed data-wiper virus on Ukraine, say cyber experts\" \/>UK government and banks on alert for new form of malware said to have infected hundreds of machines<br \/>\nRussia-Ukraine crisis: live news<br \/>\nCyber experts have identified a new strain of computer-disabling malware unleashed on Ukrainian targets as part of Russia\u2019s offensive, as the UK government and banks said they were on alert for online attacks.<br \/>\nRussia was widely expected to launch a cyber assault alongside its military campaign, and the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine was marked by the deployment of a \u201cwiper\u201d virus. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which paralyses websites by bombarding them with spurious information requests, also hit Ukrainian government sites. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK government and banks on alert for new form of malware said to have infected hundreds of machines Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news Cyber experts have identified a new strain of computer-disabling malware unleashed on Ukrainian targets as part of Russia\u2019s offensive, as the UK government and banks said they were on alert for online attacks. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/24\/russia-unleashed-data-wiper-virus-on-ukraine-say-cyber-experts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia unleashed data-wiper virus on Ukraine, say cyber experts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}