Watch: Putin Casually Denies Russia Behind Cyber Attacks

Written By BlabberBuzz | Tuesday, 15 June 2021 04:30 PM
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Watch: Putin Casually Denies Russia Behind Cyber Attacks

Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed back on allegations that his government is behind cyberattacks against the U.S. or election interference efforts, insisting that the accusations against Russia are "farcical" and lack evidentiary support.

In an interview with NBC News, Putin stopped short of a full denial of the allegations, though maintained that the U.S. has not been able to prove anything.

"It’s becoming farcical," Putin stated. "We have been accused of all kinds of things. Election interference, cyberattacks, and so on and so forth, and not once – not once, not one time – did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof. Just unfounded accusations."

Former special counsel Robert Mueller's report covered detailed accusations that the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency used fake identities to carry out disinformation campaigns on social media and through grassroots activism.

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In 2019, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued an 85-page report describing a large-scale Russian attempt to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. The organization of bipartisan senators described the social media activities of the Internet Research Agency as part of a "broader, sophisticated and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in American politics and society."

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In the months before the 2020 elections, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Russia had been "very active" in election interference efforts, and a report by cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows published before the 2020 election insisted that Russia, Iran and China all posed threats leading into November's contest. The report blamed Russia for "hack and leak" operations and cooperation between organized crime groups and Russian government agencies.

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Russian hacker Yevgeniy Alexandrovich Nikulin was convicted and sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking into LinkedIn, Dropbox and former social networking site Formspring, though Nikulin was convicted as a lone actor, not as part of a bigger operation by the Russian government.

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In January, top U.S. national security agencies issued a joint statement announcing that a months' long cyber-attack on software company SolarWinds "was likely Russian in origin."

Putin was questioned by NBC why he does not take a firmer position against individual hackers who attack the U.S., hurting diplomatic efforts in the process. Putin replied by saying that "the simplest thing to do would be for us to sit down calmly and agree on joint work in cyberspace," claiming that the U.S. has refused to do so.

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Meanwhile, more and more business leaders, and even smaller firms fear more cyber attacks.

45% of business leaders claim that their company has experienced more network security incidents as a result of the pandemic, according to a new survey from Telia Carrier.

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