Russia faced “direct aggression” in the form of cyberattacks from the West during its invasion of Ukraine, but successfully defended itself, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
Speaking to members of the Russian Security Council, Putin noted that “the challenges in this area have become even more urgent, serious and far-reaching.”
The President of Russia condemned “the unleashed direct aggression against Russia, the war in the information space”, adding that cyber aggression against Moscow, “like the attack in the form of sanctions, failed”.
Putin instructed officials to “improve and strengthen the mechanisms for ensuring information security at critical production facilities that are directly related to defensive abilities [da Rússia]and with the stable development of the economic and social spheres“.
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Also this Friday, the Italian press reported computer attacks on several Italian institutional sites, claimed responsibility by the pro-Russian group Killnet, which had already tried to disrupt the Eurovision Song Contest held last week in Turin.
Before, The Killnet group has already attacked several Italian institutional sites as well as the pages of the Senate and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which were blocked for several hours. Pro-Russian collective Killnet has already reported similar cyberattacks against websites in Romania, Poland and the United States.
Costa Rica is also “at war” against the “cyber-terrorists” of the pro-Russian group Conti, who on April 17 launched a series of attacks that still affect the country, President Rodrigo Chávez said on Monday.
Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine on Feb. 24 that has killed more than 3,000 civilians, according to the UN, which warns the real number is likely much higher.
The military offensive caused more than 13 million people to flee, of which more than 5.5 million were outside the country, according to the latest UN figures.
The Russian invasion was condemned by the international community as a whole, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and increasing economic and political sanctions against Moscow.
