UK Organisations at Risk of Cyber Attacks After Ukraine Invasion

Organisations in the UK are being urged to bolster their cyber security defences as the Russian invasion of Ukraine escalates.

The incursion has been accompanied by a flurry of cyber attacks from hackers on both sides of the conflict. Some of those assaults are directly tied to ground operations, such as Russia’s malware attack on the Ukrainian military hours before it launched a full-scale invasion.

Kremlin-sponsored hackers also launched a phishing campaign using a Ukrainian soldier’s email address to disrupt efforts to help refugees flee the country.

Other attacks have more broadly political motives. A group of Ukrainian hackers took the Moscow Stock Exchange offline on Monday, while the hacking collective Anonymous, which has declared “cyber war” against Russia, said it had taken down RT News, the Russian state-controlled television network.

The group tweeted: “Anonymous has ongoing operations to keep .ru government websites offline, and to push information to the Russian people so they can be free of Putin’s state censorship machin

e.”