When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, much discussion ensued about how the war would be both cyber and kinetic. A year later, the consensus seems to be that while there was a lot of cyberattack activity, it wasn’t as destructive as many had feared. That was partly due to various governments and security companies helping to identify and block attacks.
Between February 2022 and February 2023, an average of 10% of all online traffic to Ukraine was mitigations of potential attacks, Cloudflare said in its analysis of the Russian invasion’s impact on theUkrainian Internet. Cloudflare protected Ukrainian Web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic to block malicious attacks, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
