Before Vladimir Putin launched his invasion a month ago, security experts warned that the coming conflict could redefine cyber warfare — both for Ukraine and for the United States. But so far, cyberattacks have been of limited importance in a war that Russia has waged using tanks, rockets, missiles and bombardments of civilians.
“I’m one of those people who over the years has been saying [the next war] would be so much cyber,” said Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of the U.S. Army Europe. “Instead it’s been almost medieval what we have seen, not just sort of a cyber juggernaut that I had expected.”…
“I do believe that cyber retaliation will still come. I think right now they are still preoccupied with prosecuting this war in Ukraine that is not going well,” Alperovitch said of the Russians…
So far, hacking assaults on infrastructure in Ukraine have been far less than what everyone acknowledges Russia is capable of.
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