According to Rostelecom, the goal of the hackers was the destruction of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation
Moscow. June 15th. INTERFAX.RU - The hackers which have been attacking Russian resources since February 24, 2022, have been purposefully working since February 2023 to destroy critical information infrastructure, Senior Vice President for Information Security of PJSC Rostelecom, CEO of RTK-Solar Igor Lyapunov said at SPIEF.
"Since February of this year, the third wave of attacks has begun. If earlier the attacks were seemingly harmless, now the strikes have already begun: a) on critical information infrastructure and b) on its destruction, on its erasure. There are already many examples when, indeed, in the target attack: hackers break in and not just download something, but erase, destroy the infrastructure," Lyapunov said.
He recalled that earlier large NATO cyber exercises were held, in which Ukraine took part, and in addition, Ukraine recently joined the NATO Cyber Defense Cooperation Center (CCDCOE).
"And, of course, right now, especially in the last month, we are seeing a really serious jump in the complexity of cyber attacks that are targeting us. And in many ways, we are already seeing the coordination of what is happening in the physical world and those attacks that are cyberspace," Lyapunov said.
According to him, the first wave of cyberattacks was from about February 24 until the middle of summer 2022, when massive, but fairly simple cyberattacks were launched against Russian resources, "and at some point almost 100% of hacker resources were used for DDoS attacks against us." “But it was basic hooliganism: to break into the site, hang some picture there, break into the news agency and hang some kind of fake there, that’s all,” he said.
As a result of the second wave of hacker attacks, which lasted from mid-summer until the end of last year, "great data leaks" occurred. "We recently counted the number of everything that" leaked. "More than 300 million records leaked over the past six months, this is a colossal (number - IF). Some experts talk about the end of privacy. In general, this is close to that," Lyapunov said.
The RTK-Solar company, as Lyapunov said, protects most of the resources in the country, including the Gosuslug portal, large state compute clouds, as well as the resources of more than 300 of the largest companies.
According to Roskomnadzor, since the beginning of 2022, the number of data leaks has increased dramatically, last year there were more than 140, and about 600 million records from citizens got into the wider network, while in 2021 there were only four major incidents with personal data, during which 2.7 million records got into open access. According to Kaspersky Lab, over the past year, more than 1.5 billion records with data from Russians could have gotten into the wider network.
Moscow. June 15th. INTERFAX.RU - The hackers which have been attacking Russian resources since February 24, 2022, have been purposefully working since February 2023 to destroy critical information infrastructure, Senior Vice President for Information Security of PJSC Rostelecom, CEO of RTK-Solar Igor Lyapunov said at SPIEF.
"Since February of this year, the third wave of attacks has begun. If earlier the attacks were seemingly harmless, now the strikes have already begun: a) on critical information infrastructure and b) on its destruction, on its erasure. There are already many examples when, indeed, in the target attack: hackers break in and not just download something, but erase, destroy the infrastructure," Lyapunov said.
He recalled that earlier large NATO cyber exercises were held, in which Ukraine took part, and in addition, Ukraine recently joined the NATO Cyber Defense Cooperation Center (CCDCOE).
"And, of course, right now, especially in the last month, we are seeing a really serious jump in the complexity of cyber attacks that are targeting us. And in many ways, we are already seeing the coordination of what is happening in the physical world and those attacks that are cyberspace," Lyapunov said.
According to him, the first wave of cyberattacks was from about February 24 until the middle of summer 2022, when massive, but fairly simple cyberattacks were launched against Russian resources, "and at some point almost 100% of hacker resources were used for DDoS attacks against us." “But it was basic hooliganism: to break into the site, hang some picture there, break into the news agency and hang some kind of fake there, that’s all,” he said.
As a result of the second wave of hacker attacks, which lasted from mid-summer until the end of last year, "great data leaks" occurred. "We recently counted the number of everything that" leaked. "More than 300 million records leaked over the past six months, this is a colossal (number - IF). Some experts talk about the end of privacy. In general, this is close to that," Lyapunov said.
The RTK-Solar company, as Lyapunov said, protects most of the resources in the country, including the Gosuslug portal, large state compute clouds, as well as the resources of more than 300 of the largest companies.
According to Roskomnadzor, since the beginning of 2022, the number of data leaks has increased dramatically, last year there were more than 140, and about 600 million records from citizens got into the wider network, while in 2021 there were only four major incidents with personal data, during which 2.7 million records got into open access. According to Kaspersky Lab, over the past year, more than 1.5 billion records with data from Russians could have gotten into the wider network.
