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As Ukraine continues to make efforts to mobilize and equip citizens on the ground to resist Russia’s unprovoked invasion of the country, those outside Ukraine in need of assistance are invited to get involved in the fight in the virtual world. As the G7 (now with Japan’s addition) mobilizes to shut down Russia’s access to the Swift banking system, the country has led a crusade inviting developers to sign up for an “IT army” fraught with express cyber challenges. It also makes express calls to the leaders of the generation to make their component as well.
The “Computer Army of Ukraine”, announced and already with almost 184,000 users on its main Telegram channel (and this number continues to grow – it has gained almost 10,000 users at the time of writing this story), uses this account to call express projects . and asks for help to close Russian sites, Russian agents and those working in conjunction with the country, and to mobilize those living in Ukraine around the works they can do. (It also has a Gmail address for those who don’t use Telegram: itarmyua@gmail. com. We contacted this address to see if the organizers would tell us more about the project. )
And it turns out it’s making progress. A call in the channel to shut down the API of Sberbank, one of Russia’s leading banks, appears to have come into play the day before, with the site lately offline. The same goes for the official online page of Belarus’ data policy, which he said. also disconnected after a call on the channel. An ironic technique similar to that used by Anonymous and other teams of activist hackers is needed when attacking express targets.
“Incredible cyber attacks hit the portal of the services of the Russian government, the Kremlin, the Parliament, the first channel, aerospace and railway Internet sites on February 26,” he said, mentioning Russian media. “More than fifty DDoS attacks contained more than a capacity of terabytes. ‘Who did that?;) what a twist of fate, a pity. “
The effort is discovered by word of mouth, but also with the approval of government officials who tweet the link. (However, it is not transparent that the government is actually this. )
“We are creating an army of computers. We want virtual talent,” Mykhailo Fedorov, who is Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and minister of virtual transformation, said on Twitter. “There will be responsibilities for everyone. We continue to fight on the cyber front. The first task is in the channel of cyberspecialists. “
Fedorov has not lost his words in Twitter. Il has also selected Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk to use their existing platforms and products in their efforts, respectively, to ban access to Facebook platforms in Russia and to make Starlink greater access to Ukraine to give users a data backup. Success is mixed: Musk said Starlink satellites have now been trained over Ukraine; however, Facebook’s call turns out to be a bit slower (ads have been banned, but it turns out that access hasn’t been, at least so far).
Fedorov also gave DMarket, where other people manufacture NFT and other virtual goods, a call check to freeze the accounts of users from Russia and Belarus because the profits could be used for their efforts against Ukraine.
The country’s position on cryptocurrency platforms has been quite positive overall, with Ukraine’s official Twitter account posting addresses to get donations in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether (USDT). Many other people have assumed that the account has been hacked, although this Tweet has now been immobilized and looks serious. However, in the rush, there is no certain data on how that budget would be extracted and what precisely would be used to finance.
All of this shows how fast things move in generation and how much depends on how it works. This is an attractive counterpoint to the shutdown of Swift’s financial messaging network, which, ironically, might not come very quickly because it will not only require states to take a stand, but also member establishments (Swift includes some 11,000 banks and other monetary corporations in two hundred countries) will also disappear.
“SWIFT is an impartial global cooperative created and operated for the collective to take advantage of its network of more than 11,000 establishments in two hundred countries. Any resolution to impose sanctions on individual countries or entities rests solely with the appropriate government agencies and legislators. Being incorporated under Belgian law, our legal responsibility is to comply with the corresponding European and Belgian regulations,” Swift said in a statement provided to TechCrunch. “We are aware of the union through the leaders of the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in which they assure that in the coming days they will put into force new measures with respect to Russian banks. We are in dialogue with the European government to perceive the main points of the entities that will be the subject of the new measures and are preparing to comply with the legal instructions. “
Make no mistake: wasting Swift access is a major challenge and will deprive Russia and its corporations of the ability to transact buying and selling goods. But the last such blockade was imposed on Iran and took years to fully take effect.
“Being banned or removed from Swift would have a definite impact, as there are many opportunities for this peer-to-peer network,” Virginie O’Shea, an analyst and founder of fintech consultancy Firebrand Research, told TechCrunch. He noted that Russia has already tried to establish its own internal network for Russian banks, but is not expanding around the world at this stage. “It takes time and obstacles to jump [to establish something like Swift]. “
As with Iran, there will be massive implications for other countries, especially those that count on Russia for products like fuel and energy, which is one of the reasons why implementing the Swift solution may take time. “from an oil and fuel perspective, it’s hindering the payment of those services, so it has an effect on those countries and on Russia. “