Security News > 2022 > October > As Russia wages disinfo war, Ukraine's cyber chief calls for global anti-fake news fight

Zhora is the deputy chairman and chief digital transformation officer at Ukraine's state service of special communication and information protection.

It's been ongoing since at least Moscow annexing Crimea in 2014, leading up to the NotPetya ransomware outbreak in 2017, and all of this helped prepare Ukraine and its networks for the series of data wiping malware and denial of service attacks that started in January of this year.

Russia illegally invaded Ukraine the following month.

While Ukraine hasn't experienced the level of destructive cyberattacks against critical infrastructure targets that international cybersecurity agencies have been warning about since the war began, Russia has won the disinformation battle - at least within its own borders, according to Zhora.

Russian citizens aren't the only ones who swallow fake news.

US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis touched on this during his mWISE keynote address, and said he's seen "Attacks on confidence" escalate over the past five to 10 years.

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