A wave of ransomware and data extraction attacks is building alongside Russian troops on the Ukrainian border. 
On January 24, a Belarusian hacktivist group called “Cyber Partisans” announced that it had captured elements of Belarusian Railways’ IT system via ransomware. 
Earlier activities by Cyber Partisans included modding Telegram to circumvent government restrictions. They are also associated with dissident media, including Nexta. 
The ransom the group demanded was, consequently, unusual: The release of 50 high-risk political prisoners and the refusal to allow Russian soldiers to continue to use Belarusian rails in a widescale buildup around the Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian border has been at the center of geopolitical tensions as the Russian military continues to amass forces, seemingly in preparation for war. Leaders of both countries have denied that armed conflict is coming, but that has not done much to allay fears of what could be the first mass land war in E

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