As previously reported the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia of hacker attacks on the Ukrainian Central Election Commission, but there was no real evidence of Russian interference in the elections.
This time the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claim that stopped the activities of a hacker allegedly hired by Russia to interfere in the work of servers of state institutions.
According to the press center of the SBU, the suspect is the resident of Zaporozhye region, who worked as an administrator of a closed Internet forum for cybercriminals created in the Russian Federation. There he was looking for people who had to send malicious software to the e-mail addresses of State Institutions for a fee.
Experts noted that such computer viruses are used to block the activities of information resources through connection to the State register of Ukraine. The SBU stressed that it could pose a threat to the servers or computers of the Election Commission.
Law enforcement officers searched the hacker's house and found computer equipment with programs to create and transform computer viruses. Also, they found 10 samples of harmful ready-made software which was prepared for distribution between members of a hacker forum.
An interesting fact is that the SBU earlier exposed the resident of Chernihiv region, who "worked for the Kremlin," placing the social media posts criticizing the Kiev authorities and doubts about the combat capability of the Ukrainian army, with the purpose to influence the Election of the President.
