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Discovered this being used in ukraine. they say there are hundreds of affected systems. we don't know whether that is hundreds of companies or systems within a couple of companies, but there is a real concern this could spread, and we have already seen this attack take out systems in lithuania as well. it has been a concern that any attack on ukraine is awful and part of this building of chaos and fear that goes with a military attack, but it could spread. in with a military attack, but it could sread. . with a military attack, but it could sread. , :, with a military attack, but it could srea...

And they are a leaderless structureless organisation, they are more of a collective, anyone can join anonymous, you just have to hack and use their branding and be aligned with their motives and their targets. they go after, in their view, organisations or people or institutions are to power and they say vladimir putin is doing just that and they have waged a cyber war. we've seen low—level stuff, ddos attacks — this is a form of hacking where you flood a server with information with too many requests and it brings the website down. posters have put up on websites against russia and agains...

Is ready, but, steven, there will be some asking, can you really stop a nation with the capabilities of a state like russia? russia has attacked the industry before with ddos, it has attacked governments before with solarwinds. is there an absolute guarantee? no. but there is a lot of focus, a lot of resource, a lot of commitment to do that, and you have thousands of people dedicated to working really hard to make sure that we are safe at the end of the day. and let me end on this, steven, what can other sectors, other industries learn from the financial sector? the financial sector has done t...

I have been speaking to steven silberstein, president and ceo of the financial services information sharing and analysis centre. they work on cyber threats across the finance industry. steven, thanks so much forjoining me. steven, let's start with this because you have members in ukraine, how serious is the threat from russia that they are facing right now? well, we do not have any measures of how widespread, we do know that there have been continuous attacks. we have been reading about them. we know of attempts to take over websites and deface websites. we know of distributed denial of servic...

There may be a number of reasons behind this, not least the fierce resistance being put up by the ukrainian people. but there are fears these capabilities may be turned towards the west and its businesses as those sanctions bite. i have been speaking to steven silberstein, president and ceo of the financial services information sharing and analysis centre. they work on cyber threats across the finance industry. steven, thanks so much forjoining me. steven, let's start with this because you have members in ukraine, how serious is the threat from russia that they are facing right now? well, we d...