This was reported by the press center of the State Special Communications Service.
As noted, hackers trojanize ISOs and installation files and place them for free on torrent trackers. If the victim downloads and installs such files on the computer, the hackers gain access to its contents and can go unnoticed for a long time.
“In many post-Soviet countries, system administrators still use unlicensed software (including operating systems) in institutions and companies of various forms of ownership, distributed using torrent trackers. By installing broken software from torrents, they actually provide Russian intelligence services with access to the contents of working machines. It is especially dangerous to use a broken operating system, because in this case, attackers have full administrative access to the computer on which it is installed, ”the message says.
Ordinary Ukrainian users are also at risk by installing unlicensed software from unofficial sources, torrent in particular.
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On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in the occupied Donbas. Russia launched missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine and launched a direct full-scale invasion in four directions. The armed forces of Ukraine are rebuffing the enemy, the blitzkrieg plan – to capture Kyiv in two or three days – failed, the Russian army retreated from the capital. The Russian military commits thousands of war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout Ukraine.
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