42 countries assisting Ukraine target Russian spying

The hackers target state institutions, think groups, companies and humanitarian organisations.

“Since the beginning of the war, targeting (the allies of Ukraine) from Russia has been successful in 29% of cases. “Russian intelligence services have intensified networking and spying activities against countries that are Ukrainian allies”, said company president Brad Smith.

He added that during successful interventions, hackers stole data from at least 25 percent of them.

Almost two-thirds of the countries targeted by hackers' spying are NATO members.

The main objective was the United States, followed by Poland. Over the past two months, spying has intensified towards Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Turkey.

The objective of spying was 128 organizations, half of which were state institutions, and 12 percent targeted were nongovernmental organizations, most often thought tank or humanitarian organizations.

The remaining spying targets were telecommunications companies, energy and military companies.

The report emphasises that Ukraine's defence systems as a whole “took the strongest “out of Russia's key capabilities and adds that a week before the Russian invasion, Ukraine passed from local data storage to servers in state institutions at “cloud” in the storage centres. Europe.

Since the beginning of the war, Russia's information operations have successfully increased the spread of Russian propaganda by 216 percent, of which 82 percent in the United States”, the Microsoft report says.