Ukraine’s hacker ‘IT army’ to become ‘cyber ISIS’ – Moscow
An online army of 300,000 pro-Ukrainian cyber fighters – similar to terrorists backed by the US in Syria to fight against Damascus – will come back to hurt Western nations, claims the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Dubbed the so-called ‘cyber ISIS’, spox Maria Zakharova was describing the project announced by Ukraine’s Digital Minister Aleksander Bornyakov – who called his plan the “world’s first IT army, with “almost 300,000 people” to “disrupt the work of [Russian] digital resources” and “fight propaganda.”
Zakharova said the hackers were responsible for a recent attack on a German subsidiary of the Russian oil company Rosneft. The Anonymous hackers claimed they stole 20TB of data and forced the firm offline – potentially threatening output to areas of Germany.
“For some reason, German authorities temporarily forgot about the noble mission of the attackers and had the law enforcement actively look for them,” she remarked.
