Ukraine’s cybersecurity services have neutralized more than 4,500 Russian cyberattacks against the country since the beginning of the year, an official said.
In an interview with the “My-Ukraine” TV channel broadcast on Monday, Ilya Vitiuk, head of the cyber security department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), “the aggressor country launches an average of more than ten cyber attacks per day. Fortunately, Ukrainian society is not even aware of most of them.”
“We enter 2022 with eight years of hybrid warfare experience behind us,” he added. “At the time of the invasion, we were already prepared for the worst-case scenarios.”
“We were already prepared for the worst scenarios”
According to him, in 2020 there were nearly 800 cyberattacks, more than 1,400 in 2021, and in 2022 this figure tripled.
“Massive cyberattacks were repelled in January and February and they gave us additional training before the Russian invasion” in late February, Vitiuk continued.
According to him, Moscow targets in particular the energy sector, logistics, military installations, as well as government databases and information resources.
“We monitor risks and threats in real time, 24/7,” he said. “We know most of the Russian special services hackers who are working against us by name. After Ukraine’s victory, they will have to appear before an international military court.”
Source: BFM TV
