Cyber Warfare: A Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022
Juutilainen, Jari (2022)
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022092620438
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022092620438
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On 24th of February, 2022, the Russian Federation launched an invasion of Ukraine. This is the first-time cyber warfare capabilities are used as part of modern warfare. During this war around 800 cyber-attacks have been witnessed targeting to Ukraine alone. This created a possibility to research cyber warfare and its different methods used along-side with traditional warfare in armed conflict.
The research’s focus was in finding what kind of data regarding the monitored cyber-attacks and cyber operations can be discovered and what kind of impacts those attacks can be analyzed to have while depending solely on public sources. To achieve this, qualitative research methods were used to analyze multiple different sources ranging from online news articles to government reports. To create a summarized baseline for understanding the events witnessed, an extensive literature review was made to collect information. These data were used to achieve understanding of what is counted as cyber warfare in different nations interpretations.
The concepts and terminology of cyber warfare are analyzed and presented as a part of the literature review. These also include analyses of subjects identified to cause bias to the different studied topics of the Russo-Ukrainian cyber war.
The main finding of the research was cyber warfare being limited warfare during the Russo-Ukrainian war. No strategically meaningful outcomes for the Russian war effort have not been conducted by the means of cyber warfare. The finding was in-line with recently published reports by private security vendors and government organizations and research institutes. With known bias created by dependency to public sources, the longer analysis period is required for a more in-depth analysis for the root causes. While the war is still ongoing it allows the possibility to continue monitoring of the situation for the more detailed observations.
The research’s focus was in finding what kind of data regarding the monitored cyber-attacks and cyber operations can be discovered and what kind of impacts those attacks can be analyzed to have while depending solely on public sources. To achieve this, qualitative research methods were used to analyze multiple different sources ranging from online news articles to government reports. To create a summarized baseline for understanding the events witnessed, an extensive literature review was made to collect information. These data were used to achieve understanding of what is counted as cyber warfare in different nations interpretations.
The concepts and terminology of cyber warfare are analyzed and presented as a part of the literature review. These also include analyses of subjects identified to cause bias to the different studied topics of the Russo-Ukrainian cyber war.
The main finding of the research was cyber warfare being limited warfare during the Russo-Ukrainian war. No strategically meaningful outcomes for the Russian war effort have not been conducted by the means of cyber warfare. The finding was in-line with recently published reports by private security vendors and government organizations and research institutes. With known bias created by dependency to public sources, the longer analysis period is required for a more in-depth analysis for the root causes. While the war is still ongoing it allows the possibility to continue monitoring of the situation for the more detailed observations.