Pretending to Be an Attractive Woman... Ukrainian Hacker Successfully 'Bombs' Russian Military Base

SNS Access, Identifying Military Bases from Photos Received from Russian Troops
Ukraine IT Unit Comprising 300,000 Members Including IT Experts

The cyberwar between Ukraine and Russia is intensifying.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] The cyber war between Russian and Ukrainian hackers appears to be intensifying following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

According to the Financial Times (FT) recently, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, a group of about 30 Ukrainian hackers called 'Hackyourmom' created fake accounts on social networking services (SNS) such as Telegram and Facebook, posing as attractive women to receive photos from Russian soldiers.

Hackyourmom immediately handed over the obtained photos to the Ukrainian military. Subsequently, the Ukrainian forces, having identified the exact location of the Russian military base stationed in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southeastern Ukraine, bombed the Russian military base in Melitopol.

Russia and Ukraine are strengthening their cyber warfare efforts. Even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, major Ukrainian government ministries and large state-owned banks suffered data deletion due to malware attacks suspected to be carried out by Russian forces. Russia is known to have a dedicated cyber warfare unit consisting of 30,000 to 50,000 personnel.

In Ukraine's case, at the end of February, civilians with digital skills who could not participate in the war were recruited as hackers to form an IT army. Voluntarily gathered IT subscribers from around the world have now reached a scale of 300,000. They are reportedly hacking thousands of security and traffic cameras in Ukraine to cause confusion in the movements of Russian forces.

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