Ukraine's Victor Zhora: Russia's cyber 'war crimes' will continue after ground invasion ends
Ukraine's cybersecurity boss Victor Zhora says he expects Russia's online attacks against his country – including cyber"war crimes" – will continue long after the physical war ends unless increased international pressure is applied.
"Russian will continue to be dangerous in cyberspace for quite a long period, at least until a complete change of the political system and change of power in Russia, converting them from an aggressor to a country which should pay back for all they've done in Ukraine and also in other countries," Zhora told"So definitely, even after the war ends on the battlefields and in kinetic aspects, more likely, it will continue in cyberspace," he said.
Zhora, deputy chairman and chief digital transformation officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine, today joined US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly on stage to give a Black Hat conferencefireside chat, he sat down withto discuss the world's first hybrid online-offline war and what the rest of world can learn from Ukraine's defenders, which Zhora said fend off an average of ten"major" cyber...
This led to a record 2,194 such events last year."And up to this moment, it's up to 11,002 incidents that we have faced since the war began," Zhora said.Russia has conducted five phases of cyber war, according to Zhora. The first started on January 14, 2022 — a month before the ground invasion — and involved a strain of info-destroying malware calledUkraine's IT infrastructure and government websites defaced to tell Ukrainians to"be afraid and expect the worst.
"This attack was followed by a number of really huge, powerful DDoS attacks in the middle of February, and numerous cyber incidents in the day before the full scale innovation," including the
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