The Ministry of Digital Transformation has launched an industry cybersecurity center whose task is to protect government information systems from hacker attacks. Its distinguishing feature is its wide functionality: in addition to the actual protection, the center will be engaged in attribution – the search for the initiators of attacks and the establishment of their involvement in certain hacker groups. This follows from the presentation materials of the department, which were at the disposal of Izvestia.
As a rule, attack attribution means establishing the identity of the perpetrator or his belonging to a particular country by digital traces, such as linguistic features in malware codes.
Often such detailed investigations are organized against well-organized hacker groups.
At the same time, the identification and capture of a specific hacker may not be the ultimate goal of attribution, said Evgeny Goncharov, head of the industrial systems security research center at Kaspersky Lab.
According to him, attribution is more often a system of knowledge about the tools of groups of criminals. It helps to assess and classify threats in order to increase the effectiveness of countering them.
The Ministry of Digital Development told Izvestia that in their case, the investigations would meet both descriptions. The subordinate industry center will not only collect and analyze data to rank attacks according to the degree of danger and increase the effectiveness of countering them, but also determine the affiliation of hackers to one group or another.
“The attribution of computer attacks involves, among other things, the identification of groups of cybercriminals in terms of tools and methods for implementing targeted attacks. Methods and processes for attributing computer attacks are confidential information,” the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development noted.
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Source: IZ
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