Cybersecurity
Ukraine Says 400,000 Volunteers Aid Hacking Against Russia
- Global volunteers have sought to disrupt Russian web services
- Showing ‘real pictures of war’ to Russian people is a goal
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More than 400,000 people have volunteered to help a crowdsourced Ukrainian government effort that is using digital means to disrupt Russian government and military targets, according to a Ukrainian cybersecurity official.
Victor Zhora, deputy chief of Ukraine’s information protection service, said in a briefing Friday that the country was engaged in a “cyber resistance” against Russia that was aimed at making the country weaker. The update comes after Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation called on international computer specialists to attack Russian web infrastructure.