For the past few weeks, Russia has been deploying military forces into strategic positions on Ukraines borders.
Therefore, evidence that Russia is definitely behind these attacks is hard to establish.
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Russian involvement in those cyber-attacks is suspected.
The US president and EU officials are now discussing increasing cyberspace defenses against such attacks or imposingsanctions if required.
Despite all of this, Ukrainian officials have refrained from explicitly mentioning the Russian state as beingbehind these attacks.

During the pandemic, cyber-attacks have alsoincreased internationally.
Latvia has expressed concerns about cybersecurity risks iftensions continue.
And recently, Microsoftsounded the alarmafter its security team discovered destructive covert malware on Ukrainian government systems.
The chaos generated by the WannaCry ransomwarea few years agowould be unsustainable in the current climate.
For better or worse.