UK: Brace for Russian cyberattacks as Ukraine crisis deepens, says intelligence agency
- National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ eavesdropping intelligence agency, warns organisations to bolster cybersecurity resilience
- Cyberattack on Ukraine this month warned Ukrainians to “be afraid and expect the worst”; Ukraine said Moscow was behind that attack
Russian officials say the West is gripped by Russophobia and has no right to lecture Moscow on how to act after it expanded the Nato military alliance eastward after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union and sowed chaos in Iraq and Syria.
“UK organisations are being urged to bolster their cybersecurity resilience in response to the malicious cyber incidents in and around Ukraine,” the centre said.
Western leaders say the 21st century will be defined by a struggle between democracies and rivals such as China and Russia who they say are challenging the post-Cold War consensus militarily, technologically and economically.
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“Over several years, we have observed a pattern of malicious Russian behaviour in cyberspace,” said Paul Chichester, NCSC director of operations.