Thursday May 02, 2024

How Ukrainian Cyber Police are Fighting Russian Hackers

“They want to destroy as many of our systems and resources as they can get the access to." - Yevhenii

In this episode Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to Yevhenii Panchenko (Head of Operational Analysis, Ukraine Cyberpolice Department.

Yevhenii discusses the global fight against Russian cyber actors, who target not only Ukraine but also other countries and shares the work his organization is doing to combat cyber threats, including investigating crimes related to fraud, ransomware, and illegal content.

He shares the challenges they face in stopping Russian organizations and the importance of international collaboration and volunteers in identifying fraud and scam projects.

Yevhenii also announces their new project, SCAMFARI and how they use OSINT to identify crypto fraud and collect data and the impressive features of the DIIA City and the implementation of digital documents in Ukraine. 

Minute-by-minute episode breakdown

2 | Discussion on the Ukraine Cyber Police mandate and global nature of cyber threats 

5 | Describing Russian cyber attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure 

8 | A day in the life of the Ukraine Cyber Police Unit

10 | Russian hackers using cryptocurrency to receive ransoms and evade sanctions 

12 | Collaboration with US and  EU agencies and training on using Chainalysis 

15 | Discussion on the effectiveness of sanctions on crypto flows 

18 | What is Scamfari and how they use OSINT to identify crypto fraud and collect data

21 | Impressive features of the DIIA City and the implementation of digital documents 

23 | Recommendations for supporting Ukraine, including cryptocurrency investigation skills 

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Speakers on today’s episode

  • Ian Andrews * Host * (Chief Marketing Officer, Chainalysis) 
  • Yevhenii Panchenko (Head of Operational Analysis, Cyberpolice Department, National Police of Ukraine)

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