War of the future: Russia is ineffective in its cyberattacks

At a meeting this week, cyber defense chiefs from several European countries noted the ineffectiveness of Russian cyberattacks against Ukraine. According to them, the country was not ready to launch a hybrid war.

Russia is currently waging a war hybrid in Ukraine, with attacks on the ground and cyberattacks at the same time. The beginnings raised fears for the worst, with hackers carrying out rather devastating offensives. However, during a meeting in Lille on Wednesday June 8, several European heads of military cyber defense forces found that Russia had been much less effective than expected.

” Between cybersecurity experts, we were pretty sure there would be a Cyber ​​Pearl Harbor given Russia’s behavior and capabilities in the past. “Said General Karol Molenda, head of Polish cyber defense. He further felt that Ukraine was prepared and resisted attacks from Russia, and that the latter was good at attacking, but not at defending.

Russia is not ready for a hybrid war

In April, Ukraine has foiled an attack on his electrical networkand in recent days one of the heads of Ukrainian cyber defense has indicated that the country’s officials are undergoing a lot of hacking attempts of their smartphones, but that none had yet succeeded. Colonel Romualdas Petkevicius, head of Lithuanian cybersecurity, considered that Russia “ is unprepared for coordinated cyber and kinetic warfare “, a feeling shared by General Didier Tisseyre, commander of French cyber defense.

Even if the attacks are numerous, Russia knows very little success on the front of the cyberwar. His greatest achievement remains the hacking of the satellite KA-SAT from ViaSat at the start of the war. It would seem that eight years of Russian cyberattacks have taught Ukrainians how to defend themselves against Kremlin tactics.