Pno one can explain it, and no one is reassured. From the start of the war in Ukraine, the White House warned of a risk of cyberattack from Russia. If Ukraine has been a victim, the United States has so far been spared. Chris Bronk, specialist in cybergeopolitics at the University of Houston, puts forward a hypothesis: “The Russians realize that the risk of escalation is very dangerous. The basic problem, which we have not settled in international law, is that of the jus ad bellum (criteria justifying going to war, Editor’s note) and what kind of cyberattack would constitute an act of war. »
It is also possible that the Russians do not want to weaken the Internet if they use cryptocurrencies. Among the other theories of various researchers: the h…