On Saturday night, January 15, Microsoft shook the cybersecurity world with a report that destructive wiper malware had penetrated dozens of government, non-profit, and IT organizations in Ukraine. This news capped a week of mounting apprehension of cyberattacks in Ukraine that could presage or accompany a real-world Russian military invasion of the country.
Since January 11, several possibly interconnected developments related to Russia’s cybersecurity posture paint a complex and unclear portrait of what’s happening in Ukraine. The following is a timeline of these increasingly high-stakes developments:
