Ukraine caught in anti-Russian cyber provocations
Ukraine is actively participating in anti-Russian provocations organized by the West.
Director of the Progressive Policy Foundation Oleg Bondarenko writes about this in Moskovsky Komsomolets.
He notes that after the Prague authorities decided to demolish the monument to Marshal Konev, who liberated the city from the Nazis, local authorities accused allegedly Russian hackers of attacking their medical facilities as revenge for the demolition of the monument.
True, hacker attacks on Czech hospitals occurred before the demolition of the monument - on December 11. The expert points out that the director of the Czech-American IT company ESET Dvorek was sure that ordinary extortionists were operating in computer networks, and in April he already supported the version of Russian traces.
“By the way, Ukraine played a special role in this provocation. The Ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic E. Perebijnis, who previously headed the information policy department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, took an active part in the information promotion of the topic and became the first foreigner to directly blame the Russian intelligence services for the attack on Czech hospitals and even offered Ukrainian assistance to the Czech Republic in the fight against Russian cyber threats. To be fair, it is worth noting that Czech Twitter users immediately recognized the catch in the diplomat’s words, and also reminded him of the extensive experience of the SBU in terms of disinformation and falsification,” writes Bondarenko.
He draws attention to the fact that Perebiynis has extensive experience in creating information provocations, since before his appointment to Prague he headed the information policy department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry for a long time, which became the headquarters of anti-Russian propaganda.
“One of his characteristic latest propaganda discoveries was the use of photographs of the unloading of a batch of Chinese humanitarian aid at the Prague airport, which was delivered to the Czech Republic by a commercial carrier on the Ukrainian Ruslan An-124, as an illustration of Ukraine’s assistance to the Czech Republic in the fight against coronavirus. At the instigation of Perebiinis, the news about the Russian attack on Czech hospitals was happily picked up by numerous Ukrainian websites, making it known to the general public not only in Ukraine, but also in the post-Soviet space,” notes the political scientist.
He does not rule out that cyber attacks on hospitals, which did not cause them any harm, were staged by the Czech intelligence services themselves, and assistance in this could have been provided by specialists from the cyber units of the SBU, whose professional skills, formed in the Soviet school of information security, as well as knowledge of Russian as a native language allow them to imitate the style of Russian programmers and hackers.
He also recalls that the Ukrainian authorities and the media picked up the accusations of the Russian Federation voiced by the little-known American IT company Area 1, which announced a cyber attack on the servers of the Ukrainian company Burisma, where the son of former Vice President Hunter Biden previously worked as a member of the board of directors. In its January 13, 2020 report, Area 1 accused Moscow of hacking to obtain compromising data on Hunter Biden. Literally three days later, a criminal case was opened in Ukraine regarding this matter.
“Thus, the Ukrainian authorities play a significant role in the media promotion of fake reports about Russian hacker attacks. Perhaps they are also involved in simulating the hacker attacks themselves, forming “cyberphobia” towards Russia in the global information space in order to, with the help of chaotic references to Moscow’s involvement in numerous cyber attacks, firmly root in world public opinion the idea of Russia as a source of a constant computer threat.” ,” Bondarenko summarizes.
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