Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has revealed that the UK’s Ukraine Cyber Programme was launched shortly after Putin’s invasion in February to protect against increased Russian cyber-attacks.
However, the programme had been kept quiet until now in order to protect its operational security.
The programme has been used to provide incident response support to infrastructure run by the Ukraine government and prevent malicious actors from accessing vital information relevant to the war effort.
Ukraine has had a long history of facing cyber-attacks on its critical infrastructure from Russia – despite the country repeatedly denying its involvement.
Especially since the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine has been forced to reckon with repeated attacks on its telecommunication systems, power grid and airports.
In January, during the prelude to this year’s attempted land invasion of Ukraine, Russia stepped up its hacking efforts once again targeting government...