From The Independent, February 14:
Moscow has already been accused of hacking Ukraine throughout the escalating crisis
In addition to the more than 100,000 Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s borders, officials are warning Vladimir Putin could target the country with a cyber war campaign, further complicating the already dramatic state of affairs.
“No one has ever waged a cyber conflict,” US senator Marco Rubio told Bloomberg on Monday. “These things could rapidly escalate into something far more dangerous. So this is a very tense moment.”
In fact, Russia is already waging cyber attacks against Ukraine, according to officials there, who believe a long campaign of destabilising “hybrid” warfare is more likely than an all-out land campaign.
“The No. 1 task for Russia is to undermine us from inside,” Oleksiy Danilov, the top national security adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
Russia is also thought to have hacked into the Ukrainian power grid during the prolonged standoff that led to the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and other parts of the country’s east beginning in 2014.....
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