On 1 March 2022, the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mychaylo Fedorov, who previously launched the IT Army of Ukraine, wrote: “If in the beginning we constrained many powerful cyberattacks, mainly due to the long...
During the online campaign #FRD (F*ck Responsible Disclosure) of 2018-2020, a group of cybersecurity experts of the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance (UCA) published around 120 reports on critical vulnerabilities in the cyber defense of Ukrainian...
In July, Germany assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union Council. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German Minister of Defence, stated on 14 July 2020 that one of Germany’s priorities during its presidency will be the...
When the emails of Vladimir Putin’s top advisor Vladislav Surkov were leaked on the internet in 2016, some journalists supposed this was a CIA retaliation for the hack of the Democratic Party servers, so big was the scope of the...
Today, cyberspace is insufficiently regulated by international law. Existing international legal documents, like the 2001 Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s 2009 Information Security...
The document acknowledges that governments or organized non-state actors take to Facebook to “distort domestic or foreign political sentiment, most frequently to achieve a strategic and/or geopolitical outcome.” There is more...
On 25 October, the contents of the hacked mailbox of Vladislav Surkov, advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, made headlines all over the world. Known as #SurkovLeaks, the 1GB email dump of [email protected],...
In a case where those who live by hacking may die by it, Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin’s point man on Ukrainian policy, has had his computer hacked by Ukrainian activists who have now posted online two documents detailing on the...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
