The international "game" of inter-class cyber-attacks

Russian intelligence services accused Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseni Yaceneuk of the recent cyber attack on German government websites.

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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 targeted of Merkel and the website of the German Parliament, as a result of which access is not possible until late Wednesday afternoon. Yatsenyuk's relevant statement was that "I would suggest that the Russian secret service stop spending taxpayers' money on 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, subject matter expert , called it "interesting" that tend to blame each other for cyberattacks, although the that publish do not support such claims.

"The international community seems very rushed to blame, based on a balance of probabilities, which seems to me insufficient," 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

 

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