Russian cyberattacks on Ukrainian financial companies have tripled
Kyiv • UNN
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to an increase in the number of cyberattacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, including financial companies. This was stated by U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Graham Steele at a conference on catastrophic cyber threats
Within weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine Russian state cyber actors launched a wave of cyber attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, including several attacks on financial companies. This was stated by was stated at the Conference on Catastrophic Cyber Threats by U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Graham Steele, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, reports UNN with reference to Voice of America.
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Steele noted that Russia coordinated destructive and subversive cyberattacks against Ukraine, network intrusions and espionage in countries that are perceived as allies of Ukraine, as well as cyber influence operations on people around the world.
The official noted that the Emergency Response Team Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine (CERT-UA) recorded almost 4000 cyber incidents between January 2022 and September 2023. This is three times more than in the pre-war period.
Cyber activity in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is not limited to government actors, the official said.We have noticed that non-state cyber actors on both sides of the conflict attacked a wide range of organizations, including those in the financial services sector, through relatively simple incidents known as distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. denial-of-service (DDOS)
In early October, the United States announced that it would work with Denmark to with Denmark to work on strengthening cybersecurity of Ukraine's critical infrastructure. The project was led by the U.S. The project was led by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
