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Prior to the invasion, hackers knocked offline or defaced Ukrainian government websites and wiped some servers with destructive malware. Now, an ad hoc army of hackers — some marshaled online by Ukraine’s SBU security service — are claiming credit for takedowns and defacements of Russian government and media sites.
Kyiv marshals sympathetic volunteer hackers in collective global effort against Krelim, but Moscow remains the powerful cyber foe
So far, Ukraine’s internet mostly works, its president still able to rally global support via a smartphone.
Russia has a long history of damaging Ukraine’s internet infrastructure through malware. But Ukrainians are assembling volunteer hackers worldwide to launch counterattacks on their Russian foe.
Russia has some of the best hackers in the world, but in the early days of the war in Ukraine, its ability to create mayhem through malware hasn’t had much of a noticeable impact. Instead, it’s Ukraine that’s marshalled sympathetic volunteer hackers in an unprecedented collective global effort to make the Kremlin pay for making…