Such facilities are being setup in Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Romania, a high-ranking Russian diplomat has said
NATO is trying to surround Russia with a network of cyber-laboratories as part of its hybrid war against the country, the Special Representative of the Russian President for International Cooperation on Information Security, Artur Lyukmanov, has warned.
The US-led bloc has long been working on developing ways to take on Russia in the infosphere, Lyukmanov said in an interview with RIA-Novosti on Saturday.
Ukraine has been its “main testing ground,” with hackers from the country “carrying out acts of electronic sabotage under the close guidance of the curators from NATO,” he said.
Russia is aware of “entire units of Western intelligence services and armed forces being sent to Kiev” to assist the Ukrainians with hacking activities, the diplomat, who also heads the Department of International Information Security at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, added.
According to the diplomat, in the future NATO also plans to open such facilities in Georgia and Moldova, who are not members of the bloc.
“Under the auspices of the Pentagon, cyber exercises are being carried out systematically, during which scenarios of confrontation with [Russia] in the digital realm are being tested,” he said.
hmm, as there’s little geographical need for a ‘cyber’ lab to be in those physical locations, we could assume that the Nato Psychos are trying to cultivate local liberal cyber warriors to protect their diminishing hegemony. They are training/breeding new liberal/Capitalist Psycho-warriors in those units…