Ukraine said, Sunday, January 16, have “evidence” of the involvement of Russia in massive cyberattack. Moscow, for its part, deny.
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Ukraine said, Sunday, January 16, have “evidence” of the involvement of Russia in the massive cyberattack which targeted several government sites on the night of January 13 to 14. “To date, all the evidence indicates that Russia is behind cyberattack,” said the Ministry of Digital Transformation, without more details. This sabotage “is a manifestation of the hybrid war that Russia has been against Ukraine since 2014”, date of the annexation of Crimea by Moscow and the beginning of the conflict in the Donbass with the Prorusses separatists.
The objective is “not only to intimidate society”, but also to “destabilize the situation in Ukraine” by “undermining the confidence of the Ukrainians in their power” with these “false information on the vulnerability of computer structures d ‘State’ and the “flight of the personal data of the Ukrainians”, denounces the department. So far, Kiev did not accuse Russia directly to be behind the attack, but made it clear that he suspected her. For its part, Moscow denies any involvement.
“Ukrainians! All your personal data have been uploaded to the public network. All computer data is destroyed, it is impossible to restore them.” The message, written in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, appeared on Thursday On several government sites, including those of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Emergency Department of the State and the Ministry of Energy. The Ukrainian authorities have denied all theft of data. But the US computer giant, however, warned, Sunday, January 16, that this cyberattack could make the whole computer structure of the Ukrainian Government inoperable.
“It would not surprise me at all if it turns out that Russia,” responded on Sunday the US President for National Security, Jake Sullivan. However, “we have not yet determined the leaders of this attack,” he added, pointing out that the “key private corporations” involved did not designate the alleged perpetrators. “We work hard to determine it. If it turns out that it is Russia strikes Ukraine with cyberattacks and if it continues in the future, of course we will work with our allies at an adequate response” , he warned.
The United States has been warning for months on the possibility that Russians use such computer hacards to feed “climbing in Ukraine”. “It’s part of their strategy, they did it in the past in other contexts,” said Sullivan.
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