Nixu Threat Intelligence Threat Landscape Snapshot Q3/2022

Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine has already lasted for more than four months – notably longer than the Finnish Winter War. Time is therefore ripe for preliminary reasoning about the nature and direction of Russia’s cyber operations. To that end, we aim to briefly study the logic behind Russia’s cyber operations, examine both the immediate and medium-long term constraints on Russia’s capability to conduct offensive cyber operations, and, finally look at the potential direction of future Russian cyber activities.