Russian intelligence services accused Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseni Yaceneuk of the recent cyber attack on German government websites.
The Russian group CyberBerkut has already assumed responsibility for the attack, but this is the first time the Russian government has been designated as the perpetrator.
As the BBC says, Yacenjuk made these claims in view of a meeting with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel - but the question of whether there is evidence of this is a question mark.
It is recalled that in the context of the case the website was targetedσελίδα of Merkel and the site of the German Parliament, as a result of which it is not possible to access until late Wednesday afternoon. Yatsenyuk's related statement was that "I would suggest that the Russian secret service to stop spending taxpayers' money on cyber attacks against Budweig and Chancellor Merkel's office. "
As noted in the BBC report, cross-catastrophes with regard to such incidents are becoming more and more common, though (or perhaps just because) it is very difficult to find where exactly such an attack originates.
Professor Alan Woodward, a security expert, described as "interesting" that countries tend to blame each other for cyberattacks, although the information they publish does not support such claims.
"The international community seems too quick to accuse, based on the balance of probabilities, which I don't think is sufficient," he noted.
It is completed in the week that the FBI appeared to further strengthen its theory that North Korea was behind the attacks on Sony Pictures in November, indicating that IP addresses associated with them were used by the isolated country. However, Woodward disputes this, as "none of these addresses really were in North Korea. They were found in Singapore, Taiwan and elsewhere. "
He believes that cybercrime is increasingly becoming part of the political agenda. "It's interesting that all the rhetoric seems to be coming from countries that already have tensions between them. They use specific cyber attacks to score political 'points'.
Source: naftemporiki.gr