According to the British intelligence services, Russian military intelligence services accessed thousands of surveillance cameras in NATO countries like Romania. The cameras, located near border crossing points with Ukraine, allowed them to monitor Western aid shipments.<\/p>\n
The GRU, the Russian army\u2019s intelligence service, accessed around 10,000 cameras \u201clocated near train stations or military units, to track shipments of materials destined for Ukraine,\u201d according to a note published by the UK\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and cited by The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to British authorities, 80% of these cameras were on Ukrainian territory, and 10% in Romania. Another 4% of the cameras targeted by the Russians were located in Poland, 2.8% in Hungary, and 1.7% in Slovakia, although exact locations were not made public.<\/p>\n The cyberattacks allowed access to \u201cvideo captures\u201d from the footage provided by the respective cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n The NCSC advisory note also says that \u201c(state) actors also used traffic monitoring cameras belonging to municipal public services\u201d and targeted sensitive information related to shipments, train schedules, and transport documents. Moreover, the hackers attempted \u201cat least once\u201d to use a \u201cvoice phishing\u201d method by imitating the voices of IT employees.<\/p>\n This is not the first time that the GRU is reported to be behind cyberattacks on NATO countries. The so-called Unit 26165 sent \u201cphishing\u201d emails containing pornographic content and fake professional information and used stolen passwords to access the targeted computer systems in 2022 as well.<\/p>\n British authorities, in collaboration with special services from the US, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, and the Netherlands, asked private companies involved in providing aid to Ukraine to enhance their security against attacks like those initiated by GRU intelligence services.<\/p>\n Romania, along with NATO allies, has faced other cyberattacks in the recent period. Earlier this month,\u00a0the pro-Russian hacker group NoName057 claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack on several official websites<\/a> belonging to Romanian institutions on Sunday, May 4, the day of the first round of the presidential elections.<\/p>\n