Number of cyber attacks at Russian state internet resources exceeds 70 million in 2015 - Russian Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. The number of cyber attacks at Russian state internet resources exceeded 70 million last year, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large and special presidential representative for issues of international cooperation in the sphere of informational security Andrey Krutskikh told Kommersant newspaper in an interview published on Thursday. Krutskikh said that the situation in global informational space in general "has a tendency toward deterioration and even toward escalation, taking into consideration well-known regional developments." "I think that geopolitical condition of the modern world could be described as ‘a war in conditions of peace’ due to peculiarities of the revolution in the sphere of information & communication technologies and methods of their use," the diplomat noted. He stressed that "this war is far from virtual." "It inflicts real damage. It is waged in perfect combination with maintaining diplomatic relations," he added. "In particular, the number of cyber attacks is increasing exponentially. Last year the number of harmful influences on Russian state internet resources exceeded 70 million. The extent of cyber confrontation between China and US, for instance, is similar. South Korea also came under sensitive attacks multiple times. While in Seoul, I witnessed one of such attacks - it affected work of important government agencies, media, banking system, Seoul University," Krutskikh noted. He said that "no one is safe from such cyber attacks." Read more