Russia’s Cyber Campaign of Chaos Should Fail
Ukraine and its allies have grown resilient after years of digital attacks, and Russia’s own strength in cyberwarfare is looking limited.
A digital assault.
Source: Bloomberg
By the time the shells started falling, the assault in cyberspace had already begun.
At close to 5 p.m. local time on Wednesday in Ukraine, and within hours of a military invasion by Russia, a new form of destructive software was already wiping out data on hundreds of Ukrainian computers, according to researchers at cybersecurity firm ESET. Time stamps on the malware suggested the attack had been in preparation for almost two months. Government, banking and media websites were shunted offline in distributed denial of service attacks. Kyiv Post, a popular English-language news site in Ukraine, said Thursday morning that its main website was under constant attack.