far from the front, the crucial battle of cyber-activists

In this invisible part of the war in Ukraine, people shoot each other with computer viruses or spyware. The conflict has become hybrid, and is played both on the ground and behind computers. Tim Karpynsky is one of the most active fighters. To attack Russia, he created a community of Ukrainian cyber-activists. “Our main goal is to target political figures and military organizations to collect data“, explains the hacker.

Hackers collaborate with the government

They work in collaboration with the government and the IT army, at the request of President Zelensky. In this secret location, shadow soldiers fight off Russian attacks day and night, every day. Since the beginning of the war, cyber-strikes have increased threefold. “You can see that more than half of these attacks target the public institution, state enterprises, ministries or government agencies“, explains a man.