Russian cyber war linked to Spark crash
From: stuff.co.nz
Spark’s big internet crash at the weekend was not about naked celebrities but linked to Russia’s cyberwar on Ukraine and Western powers’ sanctions on Moscow, security sources say.
The attack, which has eased off, was neither about cyber criminals nor nude photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence, but online aggression launched under Moscow’s direction at Kiev and its friends.
New Zealand was not the target, sources say, but Ukraine and several big international banks enforcing sanctions were.
The attack coincided with the Nato summit in Wales which had just affirmed “that cyber defence is part of Nato’s core task of collective defence”.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – part of the Wellington-headquartered Government Communications Security Bureau – issued no warnings about the attack.
| Print article |