Ukraine crisis: EU sends anti-hacker team
The government of Ukraine is afraid not only of an invasion by Russian troops, but also of an attack by Russian hackers. Twelve experts from six nations are to be deployed in defense against Russian cyber attacks.
The government of Ukraine is not only afraid of an invasion by Russian troops, but also of an attack by Russian hackers. To better protect the country from cyber attacks, the EU has now set up its own Cyber Rapid Response Team (CRRT) put together. It is intended to support Ukrainian cyber defense both on-site and remotely and consists of twelve experts from six nations - Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Romania and the Netherlands.
Joint defense project
"The CRRT enables member states to help each other to achieve a higher level of cyber security and to respond jointly to security threats," reads the general statement on the new cyber task forces set up by the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) joint European defense project. The teams of designated specialists could be requested at any time by EU members, institutions and their partners.
"We have already seen in the past that cyber attacks play an important role within the framework of the hybrid Russian strategy," "BBC News" quotes from a statement by a CRRT spokesman. Against this background, it is only logical that in the course of the current conflict there will also be an increase in corresponding attacks, the expert emphasizes.
Prey for Russian cyber gangsters
An analysis by the blockchain data platform Chainalysis recently showed that Russia is still one of the absolute leaders in cybercrime. According to this, hacker groups operating out of the country were able to scam more than 400 million dollars (around 368 million Swiss francs) with ransomware attacks in 2021. That is 74 percent of all the money that was made with such attacks last year.
Source: Pressetext.com
