The fierce siege of Kiev and Kharkiv are not the only battles being fought in Ukraine. Air, naval and land forces have been joined by numerous cyber forces in the online space, which are in charge of cyber attacks and information battles on social networks.
Ukraine's Vice President and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov publicly called on computer experts to join the cyberwar on Twitter. He also located a list of targets in Russia - the websites of major Russian companies and state organizations, including energy giant Gazprom, Russia's second-largest oil producer Lukoil, three banks and several government websites.
"There will be tasks for everyone. We continue to fight on the cyber front. The first task is on the channel for digital experts ", Fedorov promised the cyber warriors.
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Can hackers win the war?
We realized how crucial computer experts are in 21st century iran phone number data warfare (which we didn't expect) when an internet group of hackers from around the world, better known as Anonymous, joined the attacks on Russia. They were soon joined by the Cyber Partisans.
The two groups have claimed responsibility for cyberattacks on Russian banks, state broadcaster RT and the Belarusian railway network allegedly used to move troops from Russia to Ukraine.
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And Russia has its own hackers for the race - even before the invasion, they started hacking the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Privatbank and Oshadbank, so it can be said that the war in Ukraine began with the invasion of Ukraine's cyberspace.
In fact, just a few hours before Russian forces began attacking Ukraine, cyber security researchers found a hacking tool to wipe data on hundreds of computers in the Ukrainian government and financial organizations.
The White House blamed Russia's military intelligence agency GRU for a separate cyber attack on the Ukrainian government on February 15 that temporarily shut down websites.
Russia has denied the accusations.
Politicians solicit donations via Twitter
Twitter has become the most popular network through which high-ranking officials and public figures communicate, but also ask for help, as the Ukrainian Fedorov called on Elon Musk to activate Starlink over Ukraine.
“ While you are trying to colonize Mars, Russia is trying to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets are successfully landing from space, Russian missiles are attacking Ukrainian civilians! We call on you to send Starlink stations to Ukraine,” wrote a Ukrainian official in charge of the digital sector on Saturday morning.
" The Starlink service is now operational. Other terminals are on the way ," the owner of Tesla and the space agency SpaceX announced in a message on Twitter.