That situation could change at any moment, but functioning internet and mobile phone networks have allowed Ukraine to get its own messages out to the world with surprising regularity and to great effect, as Platformer’s Casey Newton pointed out yesterday.The consensus appears to be that Russian president Vladmir Putin expected to take control of Ukraine much more quickly than has actually transpired, and therefore wanted to leave communications networks intact.
“It’s certainly not what anyone predicted,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, the Russian-born co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike, a longtime cybersecurity expert with deep ties to the region, according to the Post. But as the Washington Post reported Monday evening, at least so far, the global cybersecurity fallout has been muted.Įven Ukraine’s cybersecurity infrastructure appears to be in fairly good shape as of Tuesday afternoon, despite the spread of some data-wiping malware last week. businesses, urging them to update their cybersecurity posture in anticipation of a wave of offensive hacking directed by groups operating on behalf of the Russian government that have wreaked havoc around the world in more peaceful times. It’s been only a week since CISA issued its “Shields Up!” warning to U.S. 
For as much of a human disaster as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been over the past week, fears of a wider cyberwar that might affect businesses and organizations around the world have yet to come to pass.
0 kommentar(er)
