"We repel 99% of #Russia|n attacks on a daily basis" he says
#Ukraine has a vision for an "army of drones" - "Drones are a game-changer" per @FedorovMykhailo
Fedorov says future wars will be fought more with drones than w/people
"#Ukraine has proved to be one of the world's strongest #cyber states" per @FedorovMykhailo, while also asking for continued support in a prerecorded video presentation for @BillingtonCyber
"Each day we are trying to push and each day we are doing our best" #Ukraine Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Georgii Dubynskyi tells @BillingtonCyber
"We were prepared...for a long time" for #Russia's #cyber aggression, per #Ukraine’s Dubynskyi
In week prior to #Russia's invasion, Ukrainian gvt allowed country to move its data to the cloud to keep it safe - "really it was magic" per #Ukraine’s Dubynskyi
Hacker support for #Ukraine vs #Russia - Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Georgii Dubynskyi says there is some thought about finding a way to turn them, eventually, into a sort of cyber reserve force
"#Cyber I think was always overhyped as a critical tool of warfare" per @DAlperovitch
But he adds, "It has its uses"
.@DAlperovitch also notes that as #Ukraine gets more, & more advanced & interconnected Western weapon systems, like #HIMARS, #Russia may try to target those systems in cyber
Still, he says doing so would be incredibly difficult
#Russia prior to the invasion "was trying to enroll them in their activity, in #GRU" per #Ukraine’s Dubynskyi
#Russia is trying to develop a #cyberweapon that will be dangerous not just to #Ukraine but to the whole word, per #Ukraine Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Georgii Dubynskyi
"We want not only to fight but we want to continue our digital transformation" per #Ukraine's Dubynskyi
New: #Ukraine bracing for new round of #Russia|n cyber attacks targeting its energy, financial sectors, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Georgii Dubynskyi tells reporters
"We saw this scenario before-before the winter they [#Russia] are trying to find a way how to undermine, how to defeat our energy system & how to make circumstances even more severe for Ukrainians" per Dubynskyi
#Election2022 interference not just virtual anymore - "What we're starting to see is potentially physical security issues" at the polling place even, @CISAgov's @KimWyman12 tells @BillingtonCyber
"Microsoft assessed with high confidence that multiple Iranian actors participated in this attack—with different actors responsible for distinct phases"
- DEV-0842 deployed the ransomware and wiper malware
- DEV-0861 gained initial access and exfiltrated data
- DEV-0166 exfiltrated data
- DEV-0133 probed victim infrastructure
"The actors involved in gaining initial access and exfiltrating data in the attack are linked to EUROPIUM, which has been publicly linked to #Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)" per @Microsoft
"#Putin's bet, I think, is that he's going to be tougher than the #Ukrainians & the #Europeans & the Americans...Europeans facing what's going to be a difficult winter with high energy prices are going to lose resolve" per @CIA's Burns
"#Putin is as wrong about that bet as he was profoundly wrong in his assumptions going back to last February abt the Ukrainian will to resist & the will of the West, of the United States & all of our partners to support the Ukrainians" per @CIA's Burns
NEW: US intel sensed #Russia|n President Vladimir #Putin's growing "sense of destiny & appetite for risk" in the run-up to his invasion of #Ukraine, @CIA Director William Burns tells @BillingtonCyber
Credits good intel with helping to bolster Western soli
NEW: "I would not underestimate the capability or capacity of the #Ukrainians" per @CIA's Burns
Putin betting he can wear down the West - which Burns says "is as wrong about that bet as he was profoundly wrong in his assumptions" prior to this past February
.@CIA's Burns warns the best way to lose good intelligence "is to be reckless how you handle it", talking about carefully declassifying some secrets to push back vs #Russia prior to invasion of #Ukraine