![]() ![]() 15 to March 10, Ukraine recorded over 3,000 DDoS attacks on its websites, according to Ukraine’s state service responsible for information infrastructure protection. It’s also being slammed with similar DDoS attacks and even more destructive digital assaults now, according to Ukrainian officials.įrom Feb. In 2017, over 12,500 computers used by Ukrainian telecom companies, banks, postal services, and government bodies were affected by a wiper tool NotPetya. In 2015 its power grid was attacked by the Russian hacker group Sandworm. In the cyberwar with Russia, Ukraine has historically been a victim. “It doesn’t make sense for Russian hackers to attack digital infrastructure if they can drop a bomb on it,” said Yegor Aushev, CEO at the Kyiv-based cybersecurity firm Cyber Unit Technologies. ![]() Meanwhile, Russia’s digital attacks have been less severe than observers expected - perhaps, in part, as the military has focused on destroying communications infrastructure amidst the international outcry over reports of civilian attacks. Volunteers, for example, may be in violation of local law, and tools being advertised to people wanting to join the front in cyberspace may also actually put them at risk, researchers warn. Some Western officials, however, call this battle “unethical” and fear that hacktivists’ attacks could get out of control and hurt ordinary people who are not involved in the war. In response to these attacks, Russia appears to be deploying a defensive technical measure known as geofencing to block access to certain sites it controls, including its military website, from areas outside Russia’s sphere of influence, as previously reported by The Record.Īnd apart from this official army, there are multiple other groups claiming hacktivist allegiances, encouraging Ukrainians to counter Russian propaganda either by restricting access to its websites (DDoS attacks) or placing anti-war messages on their web pages (defacement attacks). Many attacks at least appear successful: volunteer hackers temporarily disrupted the work of Russian government websites, online banks, state-owned media, e-commerce platforms and streaming services websites, according to the IT Army’s public channel on the messaging app Telegram. This method, known as distributed denial-of-service attacks, are one of the more simple types of digital attacks, and are frequently wielded by hacktivist groups. The IT Army’s main method of attack is to flood Russian websites with junk traffic, attempting to knock them offline. “We have already attracted over 300,000 specialists,” Banik said of the official IT Army efforts. People online - some from Ukraine and some from abroad - are all contributing to a radically decentralized cyberwar landscape, where even playing a webgame can be contributing to the digital fight against the Russian invasion. “Everyone could join the Telegram channel (of the IT Army),” said Slava Banik, head of the development of e-services at the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation, referring to the official version, called the IT Army. ![]() 24.Īnd now instead of professionally-trained cybersecurity specialists, Ukraine has turned for help to volunteers with different levels of IT skills organized in official and unofficial groups that can be hard to track - often “hacking back.” Its main purpose was to track and repel attacks in cyberspace, according to Serhii Demediuk, a top Ukrainian cybersecurity official.īut it was too late-Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. The Ukrainian government began recruiting local tech specialists for its so-called “cyber forces” unit even before the latest Russian invasion. Now the 18-year-old, who The Record is only identifying by first name for his protection, is volunteering to coordinate the defense of his country online from a bomb shelter in Kyiv. Until a few weeks ago, Dmytro was a pretty average student. While Russian tanks attack, Ukrainian supporters hack back ![]()
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