{"id":4590,"date":"2018-12-11T21:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T21:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2018-12-11T21:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T21:24:34","slug":"russia-launched-cyber-attack-against-ukraine-before-ship-seizures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/11\/russia-launched-cyber-attack-against-ukraine-before-ship-seizures\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA LAUNCHED CYBER ATTACK AGAINST UKRAINE BEFORE SHIP SEIZURES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/azof3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4481\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/azof3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/azof3.jpg 928w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/azof3-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/azof3-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/azof3-560x357.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/azof3-260x166.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/azof3-160x102.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense One<\/p>\n<p>By Patrick Tucker<\/p>\n<p>Researchers claim to have uncovered Russian cyber-attacks aimed at the Ukrainian military and government before and during the Sea of Azov captures.<\/p>\n<p>Russian government-affiliated actors launched coordinated cyber-attacks against Ukrainian government and military targets before and during the attack and seizure of Ukrainian ships and sailors on November 25, a private intelligence firm announced this week. The attacks appeared to be aimed at stealing information that would have been relevant to planning the operation, according to Stealthcare, a cyber-threat intelligence group. If so, the revelation challenges Russia\u2019s already widely-disputed claim that Ukraine initiated the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has a long history of timing cyber-attacks to offensive operations, going back to Georgia in 2008. Russian cyber-attacks have featured heavily in the Ukraine conflict, most significantly knocking out power on Christmas Eve 2015 for thousands of Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/12\/russia-launched-cyber-attacks-against-ukraine-ship-seizures-firm-says\/153375\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense One By Patrick Tucker Researchers claim to have uncovered Russian cyber-attacks aimed at the Ukrainian military and government before and during the Sea of Azov captures. Russian government-affiliated actors launched coordinated cyber-attacks against Ukrainian government and military targets before and during the attack and seizure of Ukrainian ships and sailors on November 25,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/11\/russia-launched-cyber-attack-against-ukraine-before-ship-seizures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RUSSIA LAUNCHED CYBER ATTACK AGAINST UKRAINE BEFORE SHIP SEIZURES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}