EconoTimes reports cyberattack defaced Ukrinform site and X profile
EconoTimes reports Ukrinform’s website and X profile were altered Wednesday; treat its channels with caution until it confirms restoration.
- Published
- Ecosystem
- Websites and CMS
- Exploitation
- No evidence of a specific vulnerability or entry point in the source; cause not confirmed
What happened
According to EconoTimes, a cyberattack altered the website and X profile of Ukraine’s state news agency Ukrinform on Wednesday. EconoTimes says the agency’s specialists were working to restore service. This is a single-outlet report, and the details below are EconoTimes’s account of what other outlets and Ukrinform said.
- EconoTimes reports that Ukrainska Pravda and hromadske described the homepage as showing “ZELENET,” a Telegram channel link and an image of a Ukrainian flag marked with a cross. The X profile also took the name “ZELENET” and displayed a pro-Russian slogan, according to those outlets as relayed by EconoTimes.
- EconoTimes says Ukrinform stated that technical specialists were investigating and trying to bring its online resources back to normal. It says the agency was in contact with the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection and with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) unit responsible for counterintelligence protection of state interests in information security.
- Per EconoTimes, Ukrinform Director General Serhii Cherevatyi told Detector Media that staff noticed suspicious activity overnight on Nov. 11 and removed the altered homepage image within minutes, while site restoration continued.
- EconoTimes reports that Cherevatyi estimated this was about the fourth similar attack since he became director general, and that an earlier one was more serious and kept the site offline for several hours.
- EconoTimes says Ukrinform said it would issue further updates but gave no restoration deadline.
Not confirmed in the source: who carried out the attack, how access was obtained, whether any data was taken, and whether the “ZELENET” name points to a specific group. No independent verification beyond the outlets quoted by EconoTimes is available to us.
Am I affected?
Based on the source, the affected assets are Ukrinform’s website and its X profile. The source gives no CVE, no affected software and no indicators of compromise, so there is nothing to check in your own systems. The source does not describe any effect on readers or on sites that link to or embed Ukrinform content. Any impact beyond the defacement is not confirmed.
What to do now
- Treat content on Ukrinform’s website and X profile with caution until Ukrinform says its online resources are restored. According to EconoTimes, the agency gave no restoration deadline.
- EconoTimes says Ukrinform said it would issue further updates; check the agency’s own channels for any restoration notice once it is published.
- Be careful with the Telegram channel link shown on the altered homepage. The source only says it was displayed, and nothing about the channel is confirmed.
- This advisory will be revised only if additional sourced details appear.