Ukraine’s Decentralized Cyber Army
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4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The war in Ukraine isn’t just happening on the ground, it’s also happening in cyberspace. It’s under reported and little understood, but just as the resilience of Urkainian’s kinetic defense is grinding against Russia, so too is the war online.
Which is funny, because Russia is supposed to be good at this. At least … that’s what we all used to think. Hell, maybe it even used to be true. But now a team of volunteer hackers called the Ukraine IT Army is defending Kyiv and striking back against Moscow.
This week on Cyber, Motherboard staff writer Lorenzo Franchesci-Biccherai takes us into the Ukraine IT Army.
Stories discussed in this episode:
Inside Ukraine’s Decentralized Cyber Army
Russia Released a Ukrainian App for Hacking Russia That Was Actually Malware
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| 0:00.0 | Tannenes got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.0 | I know this. |
| 0:15.0 | It's all the files of the old park. |
| 0:17.0 | It tells her everything. |
| 0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.7 | Eagle one. |
| 0:22.5 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello out there on the internet. |
| 0:27.3 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
| 0:31.0 | Big shout out to any of the fellas that may be listening today. |
| 0:34.7 | If you are a fella, you know who you are. |
| 0:37.3 | There's a great story to be told |
| 0:38.6 | about the cyber war in Ukraine. It's underreported and little understood, but just as the |
| 0:43.2 | resilience of Ukraine's kinetic defense is grinding against Russia, so too is its war in cyberspace. |
| 0:49.4 | Just funny, because Russia's supposed to be good at this. At least, that's what we all used to think. |
| 0:55.5 | Hell, maybe even it used to be true. |
| 0:58.0 | But now, a team of volunteer hackers called the Ukraine IT Army |
| 1:01.8 | is defending Kiev and striking back against Moscow. |
| 1:05.8 | With me today to walk through all of this is motherboard staff writer Lorenzo Franceschi Biggari. |
| 1:10.8 | He's written two pieces on the subject they're both |
| 1:12.7 | up on motherboard now |
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