The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) announced the arrest of a “hacker” who provided technical assistance to invading Russian troops by providing mobile communication services within Ukrainian territory.
The anonymous suspect is said to have sent text messages to Ukrainian officials, including security officers and civil servants, urging them to surrender and side with Russia. The individual has also been accused of routing phone calls from Russia to Russian troops’ mobile phones in Ukraine.
“This hacker made up to a thousand calls in a single day. Many of them are from the enemy army’s top leadership “The SBU claimed that it confiscated the equipment used to carry out the operation.
Aside from assisting Russia in making anonymous phone calls to its military forces in Ukraine, the agency claims the hacker passed commands and instructions to various groups of “Russian invaders.”
“He will be held accountable for the full extent of the law’s severity. Because it contains the blood of tens, if not hundreds, of Ukrainians who were killed “read the announcement’s translation.
The arrest comes as a third strain of data-wiping malware dubbed “CaddyWiper” has been observed in attacks against several dozen systems in a limited number of organisations in Ukraine, following HermeticWiper and IsaacWiper, both of which coincided with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month.
