網絡空間与信息战

The group Anonymous, a decentralized group of hacktivists, “declared war” against the Russian state on March 1

Ukrainian efforts in cyberspace have made use of volunteer groups coordinated through social media and Telegram channels.

The Belarusian Cyber Partisans, a group who launched cyberattacks in January on Belarusian train systems in protest of Russian troop deployments in the country

On February 25, Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team accused Belarusian state-sponsored hacking group UNC1151 of attempting to hack the email accounts of its military personnel in a mass phishing attack.

Russia launched a wiper, dubbed IsaacWiper, against Ukrainian government systems, coinciding with the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Satellite internet provider Viasat was hit by a cyberattack which caused wide-ranging communications outages throughout Ukraine on February 24, the same day Russian forces invaded the country.

Russia launched a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Ukrainian websites in early February.

Cybersecurity companies detected a new set of wiper attacks on February 23, 2022, which were dubbed HermeticWiper (alternatively known as FoxBlade).

Ukraine government officials suspect Belarusian threat actor UNC1151 of conducting a cyberattack targeting over 70 government websites on January 14.

Wiper malware, dubbed WhisperGate by Microsoft, was placed on Ukrainian systems on January 13, 2022.