Για επέκταση της κρίσης στην Ukraine στον κυβερνοχώρο κάνουν λόγο δημοσιεύματα των New York Times και του MIT Technology Review, στα οποία αναφέρεται ότι χάκερ εξαπολύουν επιθέσεις εναντίον ενημερωτικών και άλλων ιστοσελίδων.
According to cyber security experts, denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in which attackers "flood" a by clicking here with traffic to cause it to fall. As the NY Times reports, the attacks target both pro-Western and Ukrainian pro-Russian news sites. In one case, attackers vandalized the website of Russia Today, replacing the word "Russia" with the word "nazi" in headlines and text.
As noted by experts, attacks on pro-Western Ukrainian sites refer to attacks on Chechen news sites, which are described as "under siege". However, according to Matthew Prins, managing director and co-founder of Cloudflare (San Francisco), it is not clear who is behind the attacks.
"I do not think it can be said that it is an attack on a state-owned entity," he said.
So far, activity has remained at levels lower than those observed in Estonia at 2007, or in Georgia 2008, where servers hosting government websites, media, and more. had collapsed due to a "flood" of data containing the message "win + love + in + Russia".
As reported in a MIT Technology Review, the Russian intervention in the Crimea seems to be accompanied by an "information control" campaign with a cut-off of cables linking the region with the rest of the country and blocking access to websites supporting the anti-government movement on its part Russian government. However, as pointed out, there is no evidence of more serious cyber attacks against military or governmental targets.
Until now, "h Russia it has been limited to the things that are usually done at the beginning of a conflict with the aim of shaping public opinion, communicatively "suffocating" critics and promoting its point of view," says James Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
According to the MIT Technology Review, over the weekend the national company Ukraine's telecommunications company, Ukrtelecom, announced that "unknown vandals" had sabotaged many of the communications links (data and voice) between Crimea and the rest of Ukraine.
As pointed out in the publication, both Russia and Ukraine are known centers of international cybercriminal activity, where highly skilled hackers are based. However, no massive cyber attacks have been observed so far. "In Georgia we had incidents of cyber attacks in coordination with the military businesses. But the Russians have done no such thing. If violence breaks out in Crimea, I think they will step up the activity," Lewis said.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
