THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT.
So far, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine has no evidence of the involvement of the Russian Federation in the hacker attack on Ukrainian government Internet resources, which took place on the night of January 13-14. According to UNIAN, Viktor Zhora, Deputy Chairman of the State Special Communications Service for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitization, stressed that “any data that may indicate the involvement of one party or another in the commission of cyber attacks, the so-called attribution can be made after a full-scale investigation of the incident.”
When the department receives irrefutable digital evidence and an understanding of what happened, then a corresponding statement will be made, Zhora pointed out.
At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that the first messages about the attack were posted on the information resources of the “neighboring country”.
He also recalled that during the cyber attack on the Elections system in 2014, information about the incident was published only on Russian resources.
It should be noted that on the night of January 13-14, a hacker attack was carried out on a number of government websites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education and Science, the State Emergency Service and others. To date, the work of most of the affected public resources has already been resumed.
In total, about 70 sites were subjected to a cyberattack.
In the meantime, the EU has convened an emergency meeting of EU ambassadors to decide how to help Ukraine respond to the cyberattack and what technical assistance can be provided to the country. According to TASS, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell assured that Brussels would mobilize all possible resources.
According to him, the EU has a rapid response team for cyber attacks, as well as “a project under the EU Structured Defense Partnership (PESCO) program on cyber defense.” Both of these structures will be used to support Ukraine.
He also said that the EU “has no evidence, but can guess” who is behind this cyber attack.
Source: Rosbalt
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