Russian hackers attacked Ukrainian company Burisma related to Biden’s son

Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, has been hit by cyber attacks launched by Russian military intelligence, according to an American cybersecurity company Area 1 Security. Writes about this "Voice of America".

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According to the company, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia (GRU) launched a campaign in early November to steal passwords and access codes for the system of employees of Burisma Holdings and its related companies.

“Area 1 Security also linked this campaign to the theft of access codes to a similar campaign targeting a media organization founded by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,” the report said.

While the report does not reveal which Zelensky media company is being referred to, The New York Times notes that the attacks were carried out on Kvartal 95. The hackers appeared to be trying to gain access to the email correspondence of the company's head, Ivan Bakanov, whom Zelensky appointed head of the SBU in June 2019.

Area 1 Security CEO Oren Falkowitz noted that “cyber campaigns remain a geopolitical tool for warfare, influencing elections, theft of intellectual property rights and financial assets, and espionage.”

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Burisma is featured in the impeachment case of the American president, whom the US House of Representatives accused of pressuring Ukraine to obtain negative information about former US vice president and now leading Democratic Party politician Joe Biden. Trump rejects these allegations.

While Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States, his son served on the board of directors at Burisma.

It is not known whether the hackers found what they were looking for (and what exactly they were looking for), but experts say that the time and scale of the attacks indicate that Russians could look for materials that could adversely affect Biden, writes The New York Times.

“The Russian attacks on Burisma occur in parallel with attempts by Russian spies from other sources to obtain information from Burisma and Ukrainian officials,” a US security official said on condition of anonymity.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• US Special Attorney Robert Muller for a two-year investigation did not find evidence of collusion between US President Donald Trump and Russia in an attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election of the year
• Personal lawyer Rudi Giuliani spoke with cryptic warningin which he promised to bring to the clean water those who started an investigation into a conspiracy of Trump's campaign headquarters with Russia.
• Giuliani stated that former US vice president Joe Biden's corrupt practices in Ukraine may be associated with the spread of the idea of ​​a campaign conspiracy of Trump and Russia
• 9 May 2019 it was reported that the personal lawyer of US President Donald trump Rudolph Giuliani going to Kiev, where he is scheduled to meet with the elected President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. A day later Giuliani stated that the trip cancels. The reason is "people who are enemies of the president and the United States."
• Giuliani collected information on how Ukrainian politicians tried to influence American elections in favor of Hillary Clinton, and also helped Democrats promote the idea of ​​a conspiracy with Trump Kremlin, which, as the investigation found out, was not really there.
• Giuliani called on Ukrainian authorities to investigate political opponents of the US president. Giuliani spoke on the phone and held a personal meeting in Madrid with a senior representative of the new President of Ukraine, urging Kiev to expedite the investigation of two issues that are of great interest to Trump.
• Congressmen became interested in a telephone conversation between the US and Ukrainian presidents as part of an investigation into whether Trump and his lawyer Rudolf Giuliani tried put pressure on Ukraine in order to help Trump's election campaign in 2020 year.
• Democrats announce formal request for US impeachment, which was triggered by a conversation between Ukrainian and American leaders.

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