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Hacker group called Ghostwriter attempted to take over the social media accounts of Ukrainian military leaders

Hackers aligned with Russia broke into the social media accounts of dozens of Ukrainian military officers and were working to upload videos of defeated and surrendering Ukrainian soldiers when the plot was disrupted, according to a report Thursday from Meta that details a troubling increase in social media disinformation this year.

The company traced the effort to a shadowy hacker organization.

Hackers’ fake claims of Ukrainian surrender aren’t fooling anyone. So what’s their goal?

Rapeepong Puttakumwong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A pair of social media misinformation campaigns exploiting tensions in Russia and Ukraine were identified and disabled on Facebook over the weekend, according to two senior leaders at the social network's parent company Meta. One operation thwarted by Meta's security team involved about 40 accounts described as "inauthentic" with some profile pictures suspected to have been generated artificially, Threat Disruption Director Dav...

After years of talks about the need for public-private partnerships to combat cyberattacks, the war in Ukraine is stress-testing the system.

After years of talks about the need for public-private partnerships to combat cyberattacks, the war in Ukraine is stress-testing the system.

Last Wednesday, a few hours before Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center, warning of a never-before-seen piece of “wiper” malware that appeared aimed at the country’s government ministries and financial institutions.

As the tanks rolled into Ukraine, So did malware. Then Microsoft entered the war

Microsoft caught word of a piece of "wiper" malware targeted at Ukraine's government and financial institutions. Learn more at Boston.com.