According to Russia’s war of aggression, Ukraine is also under massive attack in cyberspace: since the beginning of the year, more than 4,500 Russian cyber-attacks have been “neutralized,” Ukraine’s head of cybersecurity, Ilya Witiuk, said in a TV broadcast. interview. Moscow mainly focuses on the energy sector, logistics, military facilities and government databases.
Russia launches “more than 10 cyber-attacks a day on average,” Vitiuk told My Ukraine. His country now has eight years of experience with these kinds of attacks and was well armed when the war started, Witiuk said. “Fortunately, Ukrainian society doesn’t even notice most of them,” he added.
The Ukrainian population is feeling all the more the consequences of the Russian army’s targeted attacks on energy infrastructure systems. According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, about nine million Ukrainians were without electricity on Monday night. The engineers continued tirelessly with their repair work on the power grid.
The Russian invasion was preceded by hacker attacks
According to Witiuk, “massive cyberattacks” were repelled in January and February of this year. This was “additional training for Ukraine before the Russian invasion” on February 24. According to him, almost 800 cyberattacks have been registered in 2020 and 1,400 in 2021. By 2022, the number will more than triple.
“We monitor the risks and threats in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” said Witiuk. “We know by name most of the Russian hackers working against us. After Ukraine’s victory, they will be brought before an international military tribunal,” the cyber defender said.
Fighting in Ukraine continued unabated over the Christmas period. At least 10 people were killed and 55 others injured in an attack on the central market in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Christmas Eve, according to Ukrainian sources.
Referring to the high death toll in Kherson, Zelenskyy said Ukrainians “should be aware” that Russia is trying to give them a “dark and difficult” end of the year.
Source: Krone
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