KYIV had plenty of time to prepare for Russia’s attack

Hello everyone,

We read an article titled Battling Moscow’s hackers prior to invasion gave Kyiv ‘full dress rehearsal’ for today’s cyber warfare which talks about how Ukraine was able to prepare for what Russia has given them during this year’s war.

Here are the first two paragraphs of this article.

Ukraine has long been on the front line of many of the most devastating cyberattacks attributed to Russian state-sponsored hackers, from a 2015 power grid attack to the infamous 2017 NotPetya malware infections that spread around the world and caused billions of dollars in damages.

More recently, in the weeks leading up to the Russian invasion, Ukraine suffered a series of breaches that officials blamed on Russia. These attacks helped prepare the country to battle back against Moscow’s arsenal of digital weapons.

Russia has not done anything really aweful, unless you take the fact they stormed in to ISP’s and forced them out and they routed Ukraine to their servers, but on the battleground, they’ve done horriffic things that are not allowed to be talked about on a tech blog.

Russia started as we know with a DDOS attack days leading to the firsttack this year, but this has become quite interesting as the war has continued.

Vityuk made the remarks during a Fordham University cybersecurity event this week co-hosted by FBI. He was among several Ukrainian cybersecurity officials
that the U.S. paid to travel to the event and to meet with officials in New York and Washington.

I think another article talking about that paragraph was posted to Cyberscoop, but it was a bit older and I didn’t blog it.

There’s plenty of more, so please read this one. It was a very interesting read.

Again, the article is titled Battling Moscow’s hackers prior to invasion gave Kyiv ‘full dress rehearsal’ for today’s cyber warfare and please feel free to leave your thoughts.