MOSCOW, 14 Apr. Russian President Vladimir Putin, at an operational meeting with members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, proposed to consider issues of the country's information security. «, — he said at the beginning of the meeting.
The day before, the FSB reported that since the beginning of 2022, more than 5,000 hacker attacks on Russia's critical infrastructure have been recorded. Timely measures made it possible to prevent the negative consequences of cyber attacks, the special service noted.
The FSB also reported that there is evidence that the United States and NATO countries use Ukrainian territory to conduct massive computer attacks on civilian facilities in Russia. The network infrastructure of Ukraine is being used by units of offensive cyber operations of Western countries, allowing them to covertly use new types of cyber weapons, the FSB emphasized. Moreover, the United States, trying to hide its involvement in cyber attacks on the Russian Federation, exposes the Ukrainian hacker group IT Army of Ukraine, which has committed thousands of computer attacks on Russian information resources, as the author of them.
According to the FSB, cyber attacks are being developed with the direct participation of the joint command of the Pentagon in cooperation with international (Anonymous, Silence) and national (Ghost Clan — USA, RedHack — Turkey, GNG — Georgia, Squad 303 — Poland and others) hacker groups.