Russia will likely launch cyberattacks on oil and gas infrastructure, warns cybersecurity firm
Russian cyberattacks on oil and gas infrastructure are highly likely given the country’s history of “tit-for-tat” action against sanctions, said Rob Lee, co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Dragos.
“In 2014 when Russia invaded Ukraine and took Crimea, there was a number of … sanctions levied from the Western financial institutions,” Lee said on CNBC’s “Street Sign Asia.”
“As a result, Russia ended up using cyberattacks back against those financial institutions.”
“Now that we’re seeing sanctions against oil and gas infrastructure, Nord Stream 2 etc … we absolutely expect to start seeing cyberattacks against oil and gas infrastructure,” he said. Germany halted the certification of the Nord Stream 2 in late February — the gas pipeline was designed to bring natural gas from Russia directly to Europe.
An oil pumpjack pulls oil from the Permian Basin oil field on March 14, 2022 in Odessa, Texas.
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Russia is ‘effectively isolating Ukraine’ from international sea trade, UK intelligence report says
Local volunteers on the beach pass sandbags from hand to hand in Odesa, southern Ukraine.
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Russia has maintained a “distant blockade” of Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast and is “effectively isolating Ukraine from international maritime trade,” the U.K. Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update on Twitter.
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