Today is Ukraine Independence day. It’s also the six-month anniversary of the official launch of Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, with no clear end to the aggression in sight. Despite the widespread fears of cyber war at the outset of the invasion, no highly damaging incidents such as crippling attacks on Ukraine’s power grid have yet occurred.
As our updated timeline shows, however, the invasion did begin on February 24 with a disturbing assault on Ukraine’s communications capabilities via an attack on satellite provider Viasat, attributed to Russia’s GRU intelligence arm. Since then, a spate of digital disruptions by Russia, and digital defenses by Ukraine and its allies, point to a steady drumbeat of mostly low-level but steady and robust cyber assaults.
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