Ukraine working with FBI, US companies to assemble proof of Russian battle crimes

By Reuters: Ukraine is working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and American companies to assemble proof of battle crimes by Russians, akin to geolocation and cellphone data, senior officers talked about on Tuesday.

Ukrainian authorities are amassing digital data from battlefields and Ukrainian cities ravaged by the battle since Russia invaded the nation ultimate February, talked about Alex Kobzanets, a FBI specific agent who beforehand labored as a licensed attache for the corporate in Ukraine.

“Collection of that data, analysis of that data, working through that data is something the FBI has experience working through,” Kobzanets talked about on the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco.

That work consists of attempting into cellphone data, forensic analyses of DNA samples, along with analysis of physique components collected off battlefields, he talked about.

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“The next step is working with national US service providers, and transferring that information…obtaining subscriber information, obtaining geolocation information, where possible,” Kobzanets added.

The work shows deepening collaboration between the US and Ukraine on the cyber entrance, the place Russia has been a typical adversary for every nations.

The Russian authorities did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

The agent added that the FBI had for the earlier 12 months and a half been engaged on serving to Ukraine to moreover decide Russian collaborators and spies working in Ukraine and the Russian forces which were working open air of Kiev as a result of the invasion was going down.

US security companies and officers have been a severe confederate of Ukraine in its efforts to fend off Russian cyberattacks, which it has battled since not lower than 2015.

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Illia Vitiuk, head of the Department of Cyber Information Security throughout the Security Service of Ukraine, talked about that whereas the number of Russian assaults in opposition to Ukraine has grown in the previous couple of years, in present months they’ve grow to be further centered.

“It’s very difficult to prove, in a criminal case, who is responsible,” talked about Vitiuk.

“It’s very important for us to get as much information about Russian cybercriminals…because we collect all this information and put it into our criminal cases,” Vitiuk added.

“We do believe that this case about cyber war crimes is something new. This is where we have seen the first full scale cyber war,” he extra talked about.

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