Russia had hitherto enjoyed a degree of immunity from criminal attack, for one thing. Many of these have taken the form of doxing, and these too have been nuisance-level operations.īut both the extensive participation of hacktivists and the novelty of the experience of coming under cyberattack have in the case of Russia been striking. Russia hasn't sustained any devastating cyberattacks either, but it's feeling the effects of a range of government-run and hacktivist attacks. That's not entirely for want of trying: nuisance-level distributed denial-of-service attacks have occurred, as have some relatively ineffectual wiper attacks against Ukrainian targets.
Widespread and damaging Russian cyberattacks have yet to appear, but criminals find a new field of activity.
