Targeting of Ukrainian citizens who were concerned about facing loss of housing in Ukraine
Date of report
  • May 2024
Affiliations
Cloudfare’s security team identified a phishing campaign using Cloudflare Workers (a Cloudfare product) and GitHub. FlyingYeti distributed files that ostensibly helped users adapt to the end of a Ukrainian moratorium on evictions and termination of utility services, but which really installed malware on the target system.
Suspected victims
  • Ukrainian citizens
Suspected state sponsor
  • Russian Federation
Type of incident
  • Espionage
Target category
  • Civil society
Victim government reaction
  • Yes
Policy response
Suspected state sponsor response