Cybersecurity CEO: Ukraine war revives ‘hacktivism’ | Latest News
Ukraine has marshaled sympathetic volunteer hackers in an unprecedented collective global effort to make the Kremlin pay for making war on its neighbor. Swedish-American computer scientist, Christopher Ahlberg, the CEO and founder of cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, told the Associated Press that countries under attack will fight back using all available tools - including the internet. Prior to the invasion, hackers knocked offline or defaced Ukrainian government websites and wiped some servers with destructive malware. Now, an ad hoc army of hackers — some marshaled online by Ukraine's SBU security service — are claiming credit for takedowns and defacements of Russian government and media sites. Ahlberg said Ukraine has a deep level of cyber knowledge. He cited a technically savvy workforce in Ukraine that has strong links to large number of Fortune 500 companies. A volunteer group calling itself the IT Army of Ukraine has more than 230,000 followers on a Telegram channel and is constantly listing targets for hackers to hit, like Russian banks and cryptocurrency exchanges. On Monday, Ukraine's SBU made its recruitment of allied volunteer hackers official.
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