Russia’s diminishing position on the world stage has limited its physical options on the ground both for kinetic attacks and traditional spycraft — leaving Putin’s regime increasingly reliant on cybercrime to carry out its oppositional activities against Ukraine and the rest of the West. Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) released its 2023 security assessment on June 26 predicting that Russia will increasingly launch cyberattacks on critical infrastructure as part of its war strategy not just in Ukraine, but against NATO member states as well.

Source: Dark Reading: Cloud