For the first time, the United States admits to launching multiple cyber attacks in Ukraine! Russia: Presidential website has been under constant attack
CCTV news reports, according to the British "Sky News" report on June 1, local time, Paul Nakasone, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, admitted in an interview in Estonia that in this round of Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States launched the network. attack in support of Ukraine. Nakasone said he was tasked with presenting a range of options to the U.S. president and the Defense Department, but he gave no further details of the operation.
White House denies
The U.S.’s admission of launching a cyber attack to support Ukraine is regarded by public opinion as to direct evidence of the U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. However, in the face of reporters' questioning, the White House flatly denied it.
Reporter: Specifically speaking about the cyber attack launched by the United States against Russia, does this not contradict the president’s statement that he does not want to directly intervene in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine?
White House Press Secretary Carin Jean-Pierre: No, it's not a contradiction, we don't think so.
In an interview with Sky News, Nakasone said that in fact, in December 2021, the United States sent a cyber army to Ukraine and stayed there for nearly three months. A spokesman confirmed that the men had left Ukraine ahead of Russia's special military operation in February. Previously, at a hearing held by the U.S. Senate on April 5, Nakasone also revealed that the U.S. sent a "pre-hunting" team to Ukraine at the end of last year.
The so-called "hunting ahead" is an operational framework for the United States to carry out "cyber warfare", which began to be deployed in 2018. It refers to conducting active attacks by sending cyber forces overseas, taking intelligence sharing, etc. According to the information released by US Cyber Command, as of May 2022, US Cyber Command has carried out 28 "forward hunting" operations in 16 countries around the world, including Estonia, Lithuania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia, and Ukraine.
Russian President's Website Has Been Attacked
According to previous news from CCTV News, Russia Today News Agency reported on February 24 that the website of Russia Today TV has been subjected to distributed denial of service attacks since 17:00 that day, and about 27% of the attacks were initiated in the United States. Just two days later, on February 26, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian Presidential website was under constant attack, and "the page crashes frequently." The website of the Russian State Duma and the Federal Council also briefly failed to open the website that day.
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