Cyber attacks on Russia increasing

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 17 Mar 2022 by Alex Teddy
On March 17 the Russian state news agency TASS announced that Russia is facing more cyber attacks than ever. The government is trying to filter foreign web traffic to minimize this.Government agencies and state owned companies are being cyber attacked and it is presumably because of Ukraine. Aeroflot, the Kremlin and Sberbank have all experienced short term outages or access problems in the last 3 weeks.The cyber attacks are at 1 terabyte. This at least twice as bad as it was before.The government suggested measures to support the IT sector. There might be tax breaks and soft loans. The struggle will be how to decouple them from Western companies. The government said it will grant USD 134 million to manage transition but that is likely not enough.Ukraine and other countries have claimed they were hacked by Russia in recent years.

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