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The effectiveness of Russian state-supervised hackers is not very high – assessment of an IT specialist

Cybercrime is an international phenomenon; hackers operate everywhere. Of course, some of them are supervised by Russia, but the majority work for money, attacking with equal effectiveness any objects that they could reach and where they could make money. IT specialist, director of the non-profit organization “Internet Protection Society” Mikhail Klimarev said this on the FREEDOM TV channel. “Some of them, of course, are probably somehow coordinated by the Russian authorities, because they just stupidly pay or, for example, have some kind of leverage over them. If these people, for example, are in Russia, they are simply blackmailed with something,” the guest of the broadcast comments. The preferred targets for hacker attacks, which are supervised by the Russian military, according to Klimarev, may be the critical infrastructure of Western countries: transport, logistics, banking system, telecommunications. At the same time, he notes that for almost two and a half years of the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, hackers managed to break practically nothing, although there were reports of attacks. “Until now, nothing has broken yet. Yes, there were some isolated incidents, but everything else is working. This means that in reality they are not that effective,” stated the IT specialist. As for the penetration of hackers into military systems, for example, NATO, then, according to Klimarev, there must be a protection system adequate to the threat. Moreover, these systems are autonomous. “As a rule, they are simply isolated from civilian infrastructure. Purely technically, there are simply no cables connecting, say, some NATO facilities that are included in the regular Internet. They usually have their own cables laid, so it’s harder to reach them,” commented Mikhail Klimarev. He added that the military is unlikely to admit that the attack on their networks was successful. At the same time, the IT specialist was skeptical about the ability of hackers to control any military systems, for example, missile launches. Indeed, in this case there are several levels of order confirmation. Let us recall, according to Reuters, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are investigating Russian cyberattacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes. We are talking about attacks that endangered people's lives - they caused disruptions in electricity and water supplies, as well as in the work of emergency services and air raid warning services. The post The effectiveness of Russian state-supervised hackers is not very high – assessment of an IT specialist appeared first on Freedom.