Ukraine and NATO to sign a cyber agreement, including Kiev's access to Western military bloc 'malware information sharing platform', following the massive attack on Ukraine's gov't institutions
Without mentioning Russia, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Andriy Yermak, said Western and Ukrainian intelligence believed the cyberattacks were part of a plot for the"destabilisation of the situation in Ukraine".
Kiev said the damage was limited and held back on apportioning blame but the ex-Soviet country has accused Russians with links to Moscow for previous hits on websites and key infrastructure.Russia behind attack? "The content of sites has not been changed and according to preliminary information no personal data was leaked," the SBU security service said in a statement.
The Justice Department at the time said the six were current or former members of the GRU Russian military intelligence and were also accused of staging a malware attack called "NotPetya" that infected computers of businesses worldwide causing nearly $1 billion in losses. The US ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith told reporters in Brussels that "we all understand there is an array of scenarios that could unfold as it relates to what's happening between Russia and Ukraine".
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