Will conflict in Ukraine raise the risk of cyber attacks in other countries?
Will conflict in Ukraine raise the risk of cyber attacks in other countries? In a nutshell, the general consensus is, yes. Conflict in Ukraine will raise the risk of cyber attacks in other countries. If as is expected, the situation in Ukraine escalates to all out conflict, we can expect significant offensive cyber operations against Ukrainian government, utility and industrial targets and targets beyond Ukraine as well. Not NotPetya again? As we saw in 2017 with the NotPetya Ransomware campaign, which was aimed at Ukrainian companies via a popular local accounting software platform, that was widely attributed to Russian threat actors in the wake of the Crimean peninsula annexation, cyber attacks can spread in an uncontrolled manner, even when the threat actor is not specifically targeting a wider audience. NotPetya ended up seriously affecting the business operations of hundreds of companies around the world, including A.P. Møller-Mærsk (who