During his remarks at a news conference on Tuesday, a senior Ukrainian official placed blame on Russia for carrying out the majority of the more than 2,000 cyberattacks that were directed against Ukraine in 2022. The official said that the news conference was itself delayed because of a cyberattack.
The official, Yuriy Schygol, stated to the reporters that his livestreamed conference had to start 15 minutes later than scheduled due to a hack that was carried out by the Russian government; however, he did not provide any further explanation or evidence to support his claim.
According to Schygol, head of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, all that the Russian hackers were able to accomplish was to push back the beginning of our briefing by fifteen minutes.
During the press conference, he stated that Ukraine had been the target of 2,194 cyberattacks in 2022, with 1,655 of those attacks occurring after the invasion that Moscow launched on February 24.
The government institutions were hit with 557 cyberattacks in 2018, and he placed the majority of the blame for such attacks on Moscow.
“The vast majority of hackers who collaborate with Russia don’t even bother to conceal their connection to the country. All of them receive financial support from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), are now serving in the Russian military, or are employed by one of those agencies,” he claimed. There has been no quick response from Moscow about his charges.