Tag: Kyivstars

Russian hackers send emails with malware, taking advantage of national mobile operator Kyivstar’s outage

Russian hackers are taking advantage of the outage at Kyivstar, one of Ukraine’s national mobile operators, to send out emails containing malware to Ukrainians using archive files named “Amount owed by subscriber”, “Request”, “Documents”, etc., the State Service of Special Communications has warned. Source: State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine (SSSCIP) […]

Kyivstar’s competitors can only absorb a 10% increase in subscribers

Given the protracted outage of Kyivstar’s (Ukraine’s largest mobile operator) network after a major cyberattack, its competitors remain limited in how many Kyivstar clients they can service, Petro Chernyshov, former head of Kyivstar, told NV Business on Dec. 13. Read also: Vodafone, Lifecell report network issues after Kyivstar cyberattack Ukrainian mobile operators have limited technical […]