Security News > 2023 > April > Russia accuses NATO of launching 5,000 cyberattacks since 2022
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has accused the United States and other NATO countries of launching over 5,000 cyberattacks against critical infrastructure in the country since the beginning of 2022.
The agency says it has taken timely measures to prevent these attacks from causing any negative consequences to Russia.
"In the analysis of identified computer threats, data were obtained indicating the use of Ukrainian territory by the United States and NATO countries for conducting massive computer attacks on civilian objects in Russia," reads the machine-translated FSB statement.
The timing of this statement from FSB is suspicious, as Poland's Military Counterintelligence Service and its Computer Emergency Response Team linked APT29 state-backed Russian hackers to widespread attacks against several EU and NATO countries just yesterday.
Rostelecom's CERT team has also published a report about cyberattacks targeting Russian infrastructure between March 2022 and March 2023.
Rather, the country's largest telecommunications provider reports that the most significant volume of cyberespionage attacks comes from Russia's own alleged allies.