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Russia he’s having a rough time on the internet. According to the state news agency TASS and Reuters, the websites held by the Putin government are suffering a wave of cyberattacks that has no precedent in the history of the State. “If previously its power (that of cyber attacks) at peak times reached 500 gigabytes, now it is 1 terabyte,” said the country’s Ministry of Digital Affairs. “That is two or three times more than the most serious incidents of this type that have been previously reported,” he concludes.
Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been the target of systematic cyberattacks. Mainly, their government websites, but also the media and national companies.
According to Reuters, at the moment the Kremlin is trying to filter the traffic that arrives from abroad with the aim of minimizing the number of incidents.
Despite the fact that, at first, everything indicated that Ukraine would take the worst part when it comes to the war on the Internet, it seems that at the moment just the opposite is happening. Currently, the country governed by Putin is the one that is receiving the most cyberattacks globally, according to the real-time threat map of the cybersecurity company Kaspersky. It has also been pointed out by several cybersecurity experts consulted by ABC for weeks.
“There are a lot of attacks in both Russia and Ukraine. But the biggest growth, from what we’ve seen, is actually in Russia. Apparently, there are groups of different kinds, possibly paid by the states, who are doing their job and, moreover, they are doing it well », he explains to this newspaper Herve Lamberthead of global operations at cybersecurity company Panda Security.
Lambert draws attention to the fact that, in this case, Ukraine has also asked for help on the Internet «to every living being willing to lend a hand, which has permeated different sectors of our digital world»: «There are many groups supporting Ukraine, and there are many people asking for action against the Kremlin».
For its part, José Rosell, director of the cybersecurity company S2 Grupo, tells this newspaper that “there are currently a lot of false flag attacks”, so it is not even possible to know for sure which are the specific groups that are carrying out the attacks that Russia is suffering . With everything, there are two actors who seem to be being especially active.
Anonymous and the Ukrainian cyber-guerrilla
On the one hand, Anonymous. The heterogeneous group of ‘hacktivists’ has been behind attacks against various Russian media, such as ‘Russia 24’ or ‘Channel One’. It has also managed to affect the services of streaming platforms such as Wink, as shared through social networks, and steal data from Roskomnadzor, the federal service in charge of telecommunications in Russia.
The hacking collective #Anonymous hacked into the Russian streaming services Wink and Ivi (like Netflix) and live TV channels Russia 24, Channel One, Moscow 24 to broadcast war footage from Ukraine [today] pic.twitter.com/hzqcXT1xRU
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) March 6, 2022
Likewise, the government led by Zelenski has its own army of ‘hackers’ on Telegram, which already includes more than 300,000 native users from all over the world. Since its formation, announced through Twitter by Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov has been launching constant denial-of-service attacks against Russian government websites, banks and private companies.
However, Rosell explains that it could be a mistake to say that the increase in the number of cyberattacks suffered by Russia is due especially to these two small groups: “Obviously, there may be attacks here that are really ‘hacktivist’, but also of another type. . Sponsored by other countries or by other persons located in Ukraine. We are in a situation of general confusion, it is very difficult to know what is really happening.
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