Ukraine: +250% Russian cyberattacks over the past year
In 2022, Russian cyberattacks in NATO countries increased by 300%, and by 250% in Ukraine alone. This is some data from the information security report by Mandiant, a security company now owned by Google, titled Fog of War: How the Conflict in Ukraine Has Changed the Cyber Threat Landscape, which analyzes how the conflict is affecting the changed the cyber threat landscape. According to the analysis, cyber attackers have been targeting Ukraine for the last year since the outbreak of war, focusing on the government and military institutions, but also on critical infrastructure, public services and the media. Attacks peaked early in the invasion in the first four months. Additionally, there has been a trend “towards specialization in the ransomware ecosystem, merging tactics and actors, and making final attribution more difficult.”