The number of cyber, aimed at the most important digital resources of Russia, is growing every year. They are kept constantly and intensively, their number is measured by billions per year, about half of attacks are made from the United States. This is reported in the annual report of the Provisional Commission of the Federation Council for the Protection of Gossevers and prevent interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation.
The Commission noted that information and telecommunication technologies become hardly the main tool of external influence. Moreover, the informational vulnerability, as the examples of many states show, “leads to an increase in the risks of reducing sovereignty, national economy, scientific and technical and social development.” As an example, the use of the American StuxNet virus for the breakdown of Iran’s nuclear project.
In addition, parliamentarians have declared the successful reflection of Kiberatak on the digital resources of the Central School of Russia during the preparation and conduct of a single voting day in September 2021.
Other states also take into account the danger of cyber attacks and take measures to counteract. However, the growth of the technical capabilities of hackers complicate the search for a trace of performers and the development of modern protection against electronic intervention.