A hacking campaign against nearly two dozen government websites was designed to “spread chaos” as part of a larger hybrid warfare effort against Ukraine, a high-ranking government official in the country told Bloomberg News.
Hackers used a combination of technical tools in an attempt to disrupt Ukrainian government agencies, according to Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation. The Jan. 14 attack affected 22 websites, some of which were visibly defaced. Intruders also used malicious software capable of deleting data from affected domains.
