MOSCOW, May 25. Since the beginning of the Northern War, the intensity of cyber attacks on Russian critical information infrastructure facilities, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has increased many times, the special representative of the Russian President for international cooperation said in an interview in the field of information security, Director of the Department of International Information Security of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Artur Lyukmanov.
“”Since the beginning of the special military operation, the intensity of computer attacks on Russian critical information infrastructure facilities, including the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has increased many times over. Almost every day we record acts of malicious influence using information and communication technologies (ICT) from hacker groups using the subnetworks of foreign companies,” – he said.
According to Lyukmanov, “the most common tools are malicious software, phishing and DDoS attacks on external services (websites, servers, network equipment.” “We also encounter carefully prepared multi-vector, combined operations,” he added.
According to the diplomat, “despite attempts to disrupt the stable functioning of the ministry’s digital resources, all electronic sabotage is promptly identified and neutralized.” “The tools necessary for this are constantly being improved, and standard security equipment is being re-equipped on a planned basis. This is, first of all, the result of well-established long-term work of domestic competent government bodies to build an effective national information security system,” he concluded.
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