Ukraine creates ‘IT army’ to hack Russian websites amid military operations

Facing massive cyber-attacks from Russia-sponsored threat actors, Ukraine has now assembled an ‘IT army’ tasked with specific cyber challenges

Facing massive cyber-attacks from Russia-sponsored threat actors, Ukraine has now assembled an ‘IT army’ tasked with specific cyber challenges, which reached nearly 2 lakh users on Telegram on Monday.

Called the ‘IT Army of Ukraine’, it is also using the Telegram account to reach out to technology leaders to help the country fight Russian cyber-attacks and shut down Russian sites and their agents.

“A call out on the channel to shut down the API for Sberbank, one of Russia’s major banks, appears to have come into…read more