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KARAGIANNOPOULOS DR. VASILEIOS
Always deniable, almost every possible kind of cyberattack has been deployed in Ukraine as Dr. Vasileios Karagiannopoulos explains.
WE’VE SEEN THE FULL ARRAY OF WHAT CYBERATTACKS COULD BE,”
says University of Portsmouth Cybercrime Awareness Clinic Director, Dr. Vasileios Karagiannopoulos, a reader in cybercrime and cyber security. “[The Russians have attacked] pretty much everything to be honest [in February]. It was a very holistic attack, so obviously, they went for government systems and targeted the electrical power grid, and substations.” His clinic has received various funds from different cyber awareness projects from the European Union, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, Hampshire Constabulary, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner of Hampshire and Economic and Social Research Council. While the armed forces of the Russian
Federation invaded Ukraine from almost all
directions on the 24 February, the
attack was a further invasion from Ukraine’s East, occupied since 2014. That year, unidentified Russian troops
moved to occupy the Ukrainian region of Crimea and then Russia supported pro- Russian separatists in Ukraine’s East to take-over those areas. The world became aware of the term “hybrid warfare” as the traditional kinetic movements of troops and materiel was accompanied with actions in cyberspace. “There’s a record of cyberattacks, mainly originating from Russia, against Ukraine, in relation to the
Russia is alleged to have a number of the pseudo-independent hacker groups that operate on its behalf
Crimea war earlier on and certain kinds of conflicts since then,” Karagiannopoulos explains, referring to the eight year old conflict started by Russia’s occupation of Crimea; Europe’s first land war since 1945. The use of the full range of cyber warfare
tools as part of a full-scale military operation is not the only first for the
BIOGRAPHY DR. VASILEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS, CYBERCRIME CLINIC DIRECTOR
Cybercrime Awareness Clinic Director at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth. Reader in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity.
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