Trove hacks 2017
Russia has previously demonstrated its capability to wage cyberwar in the U.S. While there’s been no confirmation that Russia caused the most recent outages, they came just days after Putin ordered Russian troops into two separatist controlled regions of Ukraine, which was formerly part of the Soviet Union. And on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, a number of Ukrainian government websites were knocked offline.
accused Russia of launching distributed denial of service or (DDOS) attacks against the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense’s website and two banks. Russia allegedly began waging cyberwarfare against Urkraine before its physical attack. “I have said to people we should expect something, and we should not panic if we have a cyberattack,” added Mendelson, who serves as the head of Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College in Washington, D.C. Social and Economic Council Sarah Mendelson told Yahoo Finance. “I'm quite nervous about what is going to happen,” former-Ambassador to the U.N. Such an attack could cut power to cities, shutter banks, and stop the flow of fuel, crippling whole swaths of the country. sanctions against Russia looming, Putin could retaliate by launching powerful cyberattacks against the U.S. And with tensions between the two nations skyrocketing, and U.S.