Before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, many analysts believed there would be massive cyber attacks, but that did not happen.
- Herb Lin, author of “Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons,” fellow at the Hoover Institution and senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, said there are a few possible reasons: the United States has been helping Ukraine strengthen its cyber infrastructure, U.S. cyber offensive forces may have been disrupting Russian attacks against Ukraine, and the Russians may not be capable of conducting such a large-scale attack.
- Lin said he believes there is probably something else preventing this type of attack in addition to Ukrainian cyber defenses.
- He said Russia is orchestrating disinformation campaigns in telling its citizens that the Ukrainians are responsible for the war and attempting to convince the rest of the world of that.
