KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian intelligence officials have revealed details to NPR about an attempt by Russian state hackers to penetrate Ukrainian military planning operations systems.
The hackers from Russian military intelligence captured Android tablet devices used by Ukrainian officers on the front lines in an attempt to spy, according to a report published by the Security Service of Ukraine’s Cyber Security Situation Center.
“We saw that there were attempts to penetrate these systems,” said Illia Vitiuk, the head of the Cybersecurity Department of Ukraine’s Security Services, also known as the SBU. Vitiuk spoke to NPR in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Wednesday.
“Our enemy is extremely focused on getting insight into these systems,” he continued.
The Ukrainian military uses multiple tools for situational awareness to track…
