Thread by @jseldin

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

#Russia also trying to employ "precision" #cyberattacks

"Using social engineering & using some traitors...so it's also possible #hybrid attacks as well" per Dubynskyi

#Russia's pursuit of #cyberweapons - "We cannot compare it with nuclear weapon but the effectiveness of that is enough" per Dubynskyi

#Russia|n #Malware like #FoxBlade, #SandWorm, #WhisperGate & #ransomware "destructive enough to be classified as a weapon" per #Ukraine's Dubynskyi

#Russia "They are developing classical operations, using not only cyber, not only software, also using some human resources...so we are talking abt some full-scale operations" per #Ukraine's Dubynskyi

"In our case, it is full-scale operations in frame of the ongoing invasion"

"We are preparing" for the next wave of #Russia|n cyberattacks, per #Ukraine's Dubynskyi

"We are working very hard w/out partners how to reserve, how to duplicate our telecommunication channels" he adds, noting Russia's destruction of fiberoptic cables in Ukraine

#Ukraine embedding #cybersecurity officers & digital technology offices in all the country's regions - schooled in how to respond in case of a #cyberattack, per Dubynskyi

"It's very important for people to know what to do in this case"

Next wave of #Russia|n #cyberattacks - "We're afraid the attacks will be concerted - it will be #cyber & kinetic attacks" per Dubynskyi

#Ukraine - "We need some more training for our #cyber forces, more training for our special agencies" per Dubynskyi

Thanks US gvt for "massive support" on cyber but "we will need more" for critical infrastructure, he says

#Russia - "we do not believe they are alone" in their #cyber efforts, per #Ukraine's Dubynskyi

Says #Kremlin is at least using criminals -"not only in Russia"- to integrate #ransomware attacks

#Russia's lack of battlefield success may be scaring off hackers who would work w/#Moscow

"We blv that many of them are scared & that many of them are scared what is going on in Russia" per Dubynskyi "For hackers & IT experts freedom is 1 of the dimension of their existence"