This week's Seriously Risky Business:
- The PRC's freewheeling cyber espionage market
- Disruption kicks off
- How state cyber groups use AI
Thanks to Dakota Cary and Dr Huong Le Thu for their thoughts.
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![Vitiuk described Russian cyber operations against Ukraine as a "cyber war" with destructive campaigns against Ukraine starting in 2014, eight years before the full-scale invasion. Significant destructive cyber operations he cited included NotPetya, electricity network attacks in 2015 and 2016 and a less well-known attempt to cause a train collision by interfering with a railroad control system.
Vitiuk said these incidents motivated Ukraine to improve its cyber security.
"During that time, we improved our legislation, we adopted a new cybersecurity strategy," Vitiuk said. "We invented tools and techniques that are actually effective [in] countering these Russian aggressive potential cyber attacks."
The number of cyber attacks the SBU dealt with that it believes comes from Russia have grown fivefold between 2020 and 2022. As a result, well before the physical invasion, the SBU had tremendous experience remediating and recovering from Russian attacks. Today, SBU deals with 10 to 15 "se](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wkkz5z3uw3zpadns5gvtjyy4/bafkreiha5eshj2yi2t475gi6cqix6icqo33iyiogpl7vu336rwgejwgyim)
