The SSU cyber specialists blocked a powerful bot farm that worked for the special services of the aggressor state. As a result of operations in Kyiv and Vinnytsia region, five of its organizers, who carried out information sabotage against Ukraine, were exposed.
The SSU has dismantled a channel for spreading pro-russian propaganda among citizens of Ukraine and the EU member-states.
The SSU Cyber Department shut down another bot farm in Kyiv. Criminals created 3,000 fake accounts to spread destructive content in popular social networks.
SSU investigators have collected an exhaustive evidence base and notified the organizer of a bot farm of suspicion. The unlawful entity was shut down by SSU cyber specialists in 2021 in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Since the beginning of 2022, SSU cyber specialists have neutralized 35 bot farms. The head of the SSU Cyber Security Department Ilya Vityuk briefed the public about this during the national telethon.
The SSU Cyber Department has dismantled another 2 bot farms: in Kyiv region and in Odesa.
The SSU dismantled an organized group that created a huge bot farm aiming to discredit the leadership of our state and destabilize social and political situation in Ukraine.
Since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, the SSU has neutralized over 270 cyber attacks on the IT systems of government agencies, telecom operators and Ukrainian mass media.
Since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, the SSU Cyber Department has been working systematically to neutralize hacker attacks and counter the enemy’s information sabotage.
The SSU has carried out large-scale special operations to expose Russian agents in various regions. Among the detained is the organizer of the bot farm, which attacked electronic systems of Ukrainian authorities, and an ‘expert’ who worked for money from Russia.
The farm exclusively targeted our military and law enforcement officers through sending SMS with proposals to surrender and defect to the occupiers.
The SSU is countering subversive and sabotage activities that accompany hostilities on Ukrainian territory. The enemy is using them to influence the course of the war and the citizens’ attitude.