Security News > 2022 > June > Ukraine targeted by almost 800 cyberattacks since the war started
Ukrainian government and private sector organizations have been the target of 796 cyberattacks since the start of the war on February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine.
According to Ukraine's cybersecurity defense and security agency SSSCIP, the country's networks have been under a constant barrage of hacking attempts since the war started.
"Enemy hackers continue to attack Ukraine. The intensity of cyberattacks has not decreased since the beginning of Russia's full-scale military invasion, although their quality has been declining," SSSCIP said on Thursday.
SSCIP's data aligns with a report published by Microsoft in April when the company revealed the scale of Russian-backed cyberattacks against Ukraine since the February invasion.
Earlier this month, Microsoft's President and Vice-Chair Brad Smith also said that threat actors linked to the Russian intelligence agencies have stepped up cyberattacks against Ukraine and the governments of allied countries.
Microsoft also revealed that, since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russian-backed threat groups have succeeded in 29% of their attacks, and, in a quarter of these intrusions, they were also able to exfiltrate stolen data.