Russian hacking groups carried out a series of cyber attacks during the war.
Hackers associated with Russian intelligence were most likely behind cyber attacks on transport and logistics organizations in Ukraine and Poland last month. This was announced by Microsoft Corporation, CNN reports.
This may raise concerns that allies supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion risk facing greater cyber threats from Moscow.
Poland is a member of NATO and a key channel for the supply of military aid to Ukraine. Hacker attacks have damaged transport and logistics companies in Poland and Ukraine, a Microsoft representative said in an interview with CNN.
Microsoft attributes the hacker attacks to a group that works on behalf of the Russian military intelligence GRU. Attacks by this group of hackers also caused power outages in parts of Ukraine in 2015 and 2016.
This is a rare public example of Russian war-related hacking attacks affecting a NATO country.
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, another hacking attack in which the Russian Federation may have been involved destroyed the data of two Ukrainian government contractors present in Latvia and Lithuania, but analysts considered this to be collateral damage rather than an intentional act.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said a cyber attack could trigger NATO's collective defense clause, which requires all members of the alliance to defend their ally. But this has never happened, and it is not clear what exactly NATO's response threshold is in cyberspace.
GRU-related hacker attacks signal an increased risk for organizations that directly supply or transport humanitarian or military aid to Ukraine, Microsoft researchers said in a statement.
Moscow, on the other hand, regularly denies conducting cyber attacks.
Russian hacking groups have launched a series of cyberattacks on Ukrainian government and corporate networks during the war, sometimes coinciding with Russian military strikes. But there were practically no powerful hacker attacks that would disable energy or other critical networks.
Russian cyberattacks played a peripheral, not a central, role in the Kremlin's efforts to destroy Ukrainian critical infrastructure, as previously stated by the American and Ukrainian officials.
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