SektorCERT recently issued a report on a wave of cyber attacks in May that targeted (and compromised a good deal of) the country’s energy infrastructure. A total of 22 organizations were compromised by cyber attacks in this campaign targeting vulnerable Zyxel firewalls.
An assortment of hacktivists are jumping into the Israel-Hamas conflict, and thus far most of the early cyber attacks have been limited denial of service (DDoS) attempts on public websites.
The core of Ukraine’s war crime argument is that Russian cyber attacks have directly accompanied shellings and bombings of critical infrastructure companies, creating real world damage that impacts civilians.
Over half of board members appreciate the risk of cyber attacks and are anticipating them in the next 12 months, but just under half (47%) say they feel equipped to deal with them at present.
Russian hackers has taken responsibility for a hacking campaign in Lithuania that has seen primarily government services hit by distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber attacks.
Security analysts with Microsoft have been tracking recent Russian cyber attacks and have seen a pattern of their use to support real world missile strikes and seizures of facilities, with destructive attacks sometimes used as a part of the overall strategy.
The pattern of the cyber attacks fit Russia’s general intentions and past actions, but seemed restrained. The banks and government websites were ultimately only inconvenienced for a few hours.
Russian troops on the border of Ukraine have prompted fears of armed conflict, but intelligence experts believe that hostilities may be limited to cyber attacks as Russia pursues its ongoing strategy of undermining the Ukrainian government.