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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Cyber-attacks have tripled in past year, says Ukraine’s cybersecurity agency

The Ukraine ministry of defence Facebook page
The ministry of defence, banks and the armed forces have suffered cyber-attacks. Photograph: Pavlo Gonchar/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Ukraine has suffered a threefold growth in cyber-attacks over the past year, with Russian hacking at times deployed in combination with missile strikes, according to a senior figure in the country’s cybersecurity agency.

The attacks from Russia have often taken the form of destructive, disk-erasing wiper malware, said Viktor Zhora, a leading figure in the country’s SSSCIP agency, with “in some cases, cyber-attacks supportive to kinetic effects”.

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