The operation is thought to have begun in March of last year, and the Russian hackers likely had access from May, but wide-ranging access to the telecoms provider’s full network was established by November.
Russia is hacking residential cameras that can be redirected to look over targets of interest, such as air defense and power systems. Ukraine officials have already ordered about 10,000 of these cameras blocked from the internet, and it is asking anyone with a surveillance camera that could potentially film a target of interest to disconnect it.
64% of security decision makers believe they have been targeted or impacted by a nation-state attack, and a similar majority say they have shifted their cybersecurity strategy due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.