Russia prepares cyberattack on Ukraine – Microsoft

In his opinion, the Russians cannot direct their efforts towards weakening Ukraine’s support in the West, that is, to bring discord between the coalition members who are on Kyiv’s side.

“For example, they spread the topic of raising energy prices in European countries. And although today these efforts have a limited effect, this may indicate the expansion of such tactics on the part of the Russian Federation,” said said Watts.

In addition, hacker groups can attack Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, as they have been doing since 2014.

“After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, IRIDIUM (a hacker group – ed.) launched a series of winter operations against Ukrainian electricity suppliers, cutting off electricity for hundreds thousand citizens in 2015 and 2016,” he recalled.

It was found that since the start of the full Russian military invasion of Ukraine, more than 1,200,000 cyber attacks have been carried out on energy infrastructure facilities.

Recall that hacker attacks on Ukrainian and Polish transport and logistics companies last month were likely orchestrated by Russian intelligence.

The Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Dmitry Gusev proposed to assign military ranks to Russian hackers.