Lessons From Russia’s Cyber-War in Ukraine
Expert(s): Lennart Maschmeyer
Publisher(s): The Economist
Publication Year: 2022
Sophisticated cyber attacks require huge preparation, including painstaking reconnaissance of target networks. The Economist mentions CSS' Lennart Maschmeyer's paper analyzing the Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid in 2015 and 2016. Besides the lengthy preparation, launching such attacks also reveals to an enemy the tools (i.e, code) and infrastructure (servers) being used, resulting in attrition of their effectiveness.