Why Hasn't Russia Unleashed A Cyber Attack On Ukraine? -- CBS
That the fragile cease-fire in Ukraine collapsed in the first dark hours of July should not surprise observers; Russia has pursued low-level cyber hostilities against Kiev nearly since the onset of the crisis, and certainly during the recent short-lived peace offensive. Nor should we be startled by reports that cyber warriors sought to sabotage May's presidential election in Ukraine with bogus vote tallies and came close to gifting far-right, pro-Moscow candidate Dmytro Yarosh with 37 percent when he really got less than 1 percent.
More instructive is the fact that the Kremlin has not upped the stakes with an overt cyber-attack on Ukraine's critical infrastructure.
An assault that cripples Kiev's military command and control, civilian fiscal and energy systems, even air traffic control and broadcasting is believed feasible, but remains tucked away, unexploited, in a sealed folder on a Russian general's desk. That speaks volumes about the unpredictability of cyber weapons. The effects of their first use in an all-out offensive are highly debatable.
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My Comment: Any direct Russian assault on Ukraine's command and control communications infrastructure would interpreted by everyone that Russia (despite it's denials) is indeed actively involved in fermenting the Ukraine civil war. This is a political/media cost that Moscow is not ready to accept .... for now. As for Ukraine's economic infrastructure .... why attack it when it is slowly falling apart on it's own.
Yarosh is pro-Moscow?! Did anyone tell him?
ReplyDelete"why attack it when it is slowly falling apart on it's own." Excellent point.
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