Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) The Russian invasion of Ukraine was preceded by a wide-ranging cyberattack that signals the start of a whole new form of warfare, Microsoft’s President has said.Speaking at the company’s Microsoft Envision event in London, Brad Smith revealed that it had been aware of potential attacks against Ukraine being launched shortly before the physical invasion took place.The company was then able to gather its resources to not just crack down on the initial attacks, but help Ukrainian defenders organise a response to what Smith called “the first major hybrid war”.Hybrid warHarking back to the initial “ages” of war, which encompassed land, sea and air assaults respectively, Smith noted that warfare had now entered “a fourth plain”: cyber.The company had three main responsibilities: sustaining a government, defending a nation, and protecting the people.Smith outlined how up until one week before the war started, the Ukraine government was running entirely on-premise. As fears of an invasion grew though, Microsoft leapt into action and, “within days”, 16 of 17 government ministries and a number of key Ukrainian companies were moved to t… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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Microsoft says Ukraine conflict is ‘the first hybrid war’
