Russia’s war in Ukraine has brought the concept of cyberwarfare to the table. At first, it looked like only one side, Russia, was going to grill everything about cyberattacks, but Ukraine doesn’t seem to be far behind.
The Ukrainian government called not only the military or anyone who can bear arms, also asked and continues to ask hackers in the country to help in carrying out cyber espionage against Russia. and protect your most critical infrastructures.
The volunteers were divided into defensive and offensive cyber units. The defensive bloc will be used to protect infrastructure such as power plants and water systems (225,000 Ukrainians were left without electricity in 2015 due to a Russian attack).
“Since the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, IT armies have attacked about 2,000 Russian facilities. Many of them have been repeatedly attacked. We continue to resist Russian aggression and deliver preemptive strikes against their strongholds.”, – explain in Telegram. Here we leave you the channel in question.
And this was precisely the means, according to El Español, through which the Ministry of Digital Transformation announced that in a week they managed to carry out 400 cyber attacks on Russian services (specifically between May 16 and May 22).
Some of the services that managed to bring down: NashStore app store (Russian version of our PlayStore), multimedia and some digital banking services.
“Russian banks are still unable to recover from previous hacks and deal with new ones on their websites and in online banking,” they report.
However, Ukraine is not the only country carrying out attacks on Russian digital services. Volunteers from all over the world and hacker groups such as Anonymous have joined the fight and launched attacks to bring out, for example, Russian Youtube is called Rutube.
According to a Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence report, it is also known that a group from China may be behind other attacks.
Source: Computer Hoy
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