KYIV, Ukraine – A senior Ukrainian official blamed Russia on Tuesday for finishing up the majority of greater than 2,000 cyberattacks on Ukraine in 2022, talking at a news convention that he stated was itself delayed due to a cyberattack.
The official, Yuriy Schygol, instructed reporters that his livestreamed convention was pressured to start out quarter-hour late due to a Russian hack, although he didn’t elaborate or current proof for his assertion.
“All that the Russian hackers could do was to delay the start of our briefing by 15 minutes,” stated Schygol, head of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection.
During the news briefing, he stated Ukraine had been hit by 2,194 cyberattacks in 2022, with 1,655 of these coming after Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion.
Government establishments sustained 557 cyberattacks final yr, he instructed reporters, laying the blame for the majority of the assaults at Moscow’s door.
“Essentially all hackers who work with Russia, most of them don’t even hide their affiliation… they are all funded by the FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service), are on military service, or are in the employ of those agencies,” he stated.
There was no speedy touch upon his allegations from Moscow. — Reuters
