The Sun
THE chance of a Russian cyberattack against the US is “very high” if America is dragged into the Ukrainian crisis, potentially triggering the world’s first-large scale cyberwar, an expert says.
Department of Homeland Security officials warned that the US is on “heightened alert” for a potential cyberattack from Moscow.
Professor Scheherazade Rehman, director of the European Union Research Center (EURC), believes an attack on the US is “highly likely” should the crisis in Ukraine escalate.
She told The Sun: “A US response would probably set off what we believe will be the world’s first large-scale cyberwar.
“The Russians have been doing cyber-espionage and pre-positioning operations – meaning they’re setting up vulnerabilities in our infrastructure which means when they’re ready, they can release. It might not necessarily be tomorrow.”
And, Taras Kuzio, a Ukrainian political expert and a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, said: “Cyberwarfare is already a fact of life as a means for states to make aggressive attacks which are deniable.
After an invasion of Ukraine, the US will no longer pretend that cyberattacks from Russia are not controlled by the authorities and will therefore retaliate with its own attacks.”
He warned that the cyber war would move to a “different level”.
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