Cybersecurity in Russia is complicated, owing to reprisals organized in response to Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. Ukraine has crowdsourced a multinational “IT Army” that is using distributed denial-of-service attacks to target organizations and services inside Russia. Russia has announced the launch of a domestic, trusted certificate authority to allow Russia to issue its own digital certificates. Someone is hunting Russian systems with wiper malware set to only execute on PCs inside the country. One of the world’s biggest anti-malware software developers, Avast, announced that it has suspended operations in Russia.”]

