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U.S. Helping Ukraine Foil Russian Cyberattacks as Hacking Spikes: Sources

U.S. News has learned that Ukraine, working with U.S. partners, has foiled at least 350 Russian cyberattacks in recent weeks while Moscow’s forces mass on the border.
By Paul D. Shinkman
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April 20, 2021, at 3:12 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report

Ukrainian servicemen stand guard at a checkpoint with Russia backed separatists near Schastya, Lugansk region on April 16, 2021. - On the frontline in Ukraine's war-torn east, Ukrainian soldiers keep their weapons ready, as tensions between Kiev and Moscow intensified dramatically since the start of the year. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. intelligence agencies have helped Ukraine foil an escalating number of Russian cyberattacks in recent months as Moscow's troops mass along their shared border, U.S. News has learned.

An official at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C., describes the sharp increase in hacks and other forms of cyberwarfare as the work of "hackers on the order of Russian intelligence" and says the Ukrainian Security Service prevented 350 of them beginning in January through cooperation with U.S. intelligence agencies. That tally for less than three months represents a dramatic change – Ukraine's Interfax news reported this month that local intelligence services interrupted 600 attacks during all of last year.
 
 https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2021-04-20/us-helping-ukraine-foil-russian-cyberattacks-as-hacking-spikes-sources