Cyber conflict in Ukraine: hacker gangs vowed de -escalation

Cyber conflict in Ukraine: hacker gangs vowed de -escalation

The two largest hacktivist groups in the Ukraine conflict have sworn to de-degenify and comply with the new operating rules, published by a war guard were.

On Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (IKRK) published the first control list for civil hackers ever created.

The draft called "Geneva Codex of the Cyber War" was initially criticized as unenforceable.

But now Ukrainian and Russian hackers say that they would adhere to the rules.

Since the invasion of Ukraine, there have been repeatedly devastating cyber attacks on public services with different levels.

Hacktivist groups have used largely simple forms of cyber attacks, but have successfully temporarily paralyzed banks, companies, pharmacies, hospitals, railways and civilian government services for Ukrainian and Russian citizens.

Since there are only a few soft goals in the government or in the military, hacktivists have had fun on both sides to cause tensions among the simple population to advance their concerns, and have often collected angry social media contributions from their attacks.

By promise to comply with the ICRK rules, hacker groups will prevent cyber attacks that affect civilians.

In an interview with the BBC, the leader of the notorious pro-Russian group of hackers said "agreed with the conditions and rules of the Red Cross that this was the first step from Killet to Peace".

Killmilk, as it is called, founded the Telegram group for Killet shortly after the invasion of his country and now has 90,000 followers.

Killmilk has posted videos in which he urinated the flags of Ukraine and NATO, and the group was highlighted as a continued source of interference attacks on Ukrainian goals on a low level.

of the group were accused of tight connections to the Kremlin, but she always contested this.

In April, the British National Cyber Security Center increased groups such as Killet as a new threat to the allies of Ukraine and warned British companies that the attacks they have outgoing.

If Killet holds his word, cyber attacks on civil goals, including the goals of the allies of Ukraine, will stop.

also explained the IT army of Ukraine that it would follow the eight rules of the ICRK.

The group, which has 160,000 members on their Telegram channel, also targets public services such as railway systems and banks

Your spokesman told BBC News that the group "would take all efforts to comply with the rules", even if it could be disadvantaged to its opponents. The spokesman added that attacks on targets in healthcare have been a red line for a long time.

The news indicates that the number of cyber attacks will probably decrease significantly because the groups limit their activities to official or military goals.

But other Hacktivist groups that are committed to other patriotic or ethical concerns in the world, the BBC said that they would not stick to the rules at all.

The IKRK has published the eight operational rules to put an end to the fight against everyone who has accelerated during the cyber conflict in Ukraine, and warns that many people patriotic cyber gangs.

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