{"id":48073,"date":"2022-05-10T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48073"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:31:02","slug":"attribution-of-russias-malicious-cyber-activity-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48073","title":{"rendered":"Attribution of Russia\u2019s Malicious Cyber Activity Against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/10\/2022 11:08 AM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>The United States is joining with allies and partners to condemn Russia\u2019s destructive cyber activities against Ukraine.\u00a0 In the months leading up to and after Russia\u2019s illegal further invasion began, Ukraine experienced a series of disruptive cyber operations, including website defacements, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and cyber attacks to delete data from computers belonging to government and private entities \u2013 all part of the Russian playbook.\u00a0 For example, the United States has assessed that\u00a0Russian military cyber operators have deployed multiple families of destructive wiper malware, including WhisperGate, on Ukrainian Government and private sector networks.\u00a0 These disruptive cyber operations began in January 2022, prior to Russia\u2019s illegal further invasion of Ukraine and have continued throughout the war.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in support of the European Union and other partners, the United States is sharing publicly its assessment that Russia launched cyber attacks in late February against commercial satellite communications networks to disrupt Ukrainian command and control during the invasion, and those actions had spillover impacts into other European countries.\u00a0 The activity disabled very small aperture terminals in Ukraine and across Europe.\u00a0 This includes tens of thousands of terminals outside of Ukraine that, among other things, support wind turbines and provide Internet services to private citizens.<\/p>\n<p>As nations committed to upholding the rules-based international order in cyberspace, the United States and its allies and partners are taking steps to defend against Russia\u2019s irresponsible actions. The U.S. Government has developed new mechanisms to help Ukraine identify cyber threats and recover from cyber incidents. We have also enhanced our support for Ukraine\u2019s digital connectivity, including by providing satellite phones and data terminals to Ukrainian government officials, essential service providers, and critical infrastructure operators. We praise Ukraine\u2019s efforts\u2014both in and outside of government\u2014to defend against and recover from such activity, even as its country is under physical attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/10\/2022 11:08 AM EDT Antony J.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48074,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48073\/revisions\/48074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}