According to the head of command, Cyber Command, the hacking arm of the US military, has launched an aggressive cyber campaign in support of Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression. This is a rare public acknowledgment of hacking operations by US military officials, who are usually wrapped in secrecy.
The revelation highlights how significant projecting forces in cyberspace are in support of Ukraine’s defense and efforts to avoid confronting Russia directly in the war, potentially preventing Russia from carrying out cyberattacks against US infrastructure. How important is it.
After the US and its allies imposed sweeping sanctions on the Kremlin over the war in Ukraine, Biden administration officials have warned for months about the possibility of a retaliatory Russian cyber attack against US infrastructure.
as reported by CNNA senior US defense intelligence official said Moscow would not want to risk a retaliatory US cyberattack that would disrupt Russian military activities.
The unnamed official also said that military activities in Russia Ukraine has already caused enough problems for him and according to him “adding any sort of capability for US cyber to that mix … [is] probably factoring in their decision calculus”.
The insider noted that the lack of Russian hacking on US targets may be due to escalation fears and what the US response might be, especially if the US response affects Russian war power in some way.
“For Russia, understanding the full scope of US cyber warfare power is a gap for them that leaves them uncertain about opening up this front, at least at the moment. Cyber warfare is a new domain… It has not taken long for the state to dominate this,” said the senior US official.
according to a Washington Post Investigations, Command’s earlier hacking activities included removing a Russian troll farm during the 2018 US midterm elections and targeting ransomware operators threatening US firms.
However, while large-scale breaches of US firms linked to the Ukraine conflict have subsided, infiltration attempts have been reported in Ukraine and Russia as cyber vigilantes take sides in the conflict.
The websites of Russian government ministries and media mouthpieces have been taken down or changed to broadcast anti-war sentiments. Although the international hacktivist collective Anonymous has claimed responsibility for major attacks on Russian organizations, officials worry that the Russian government may wrongly believe that such hacking is being carried out by the US administration.
“I would say that there is a real risk of the United States inadvertently doing something that the United States or its allies did not do,” the US defense official said.
read all breaking news , today’s fresh news And IPL 2022 Live Updates Here.