Fears Russia could launch huge 'hybrid warfare' cyber attack on UK this week

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Putin has told all Russian businesses they must cut internet ties with the West by Tuesday.The move could be the start of a cyber offensive launched by the rogue president.Companies were told to switch to domestic servers and remove foreign JavaScript code by Tuesday, leaked instructions showed.Although experts consider it unlikely that the deadline will be met by a lot of Russian businesses, the unprecedented move proves Putin wants to create a firewall against cyber-attacks from enemy states.Although the power has so far resisted launching widespread cyber-attacks, this could be because they are currently too vulnerable to retaliatory attacks from NATO members. “There is certainly the risk that Russia will take the cyber offensive once it feels insulated enough.

Though whether this would be the case by Tuesday is negligible,“ cyber analyst Hans Horan, of Sibylline strategic risk group told The Express. “Though it’s much cheaper and easier to use foreign tech, foreign source codes can be an access point to plant a backdoor to your system.

Remember the arguments we had here about Huawei,” he added. It comes as the bloody conflict in Ukraine enters its 18th day without any sign of Russian aggressors stopping the brutality.

Technology has become a key part of the war and from midnight tonight Putin is blocking 80 million Russian citizens' access to Instagram after he accused Meta of being an extremist organisation. Stay in the loop with all the Daily Star's latest news by signing up to one of our free newsletters here. Horan continued: “JavaScript is on every almost computer system known to man - Putin is asking Russians to go through hundreds of millions of lines of code and find each one that is foreign sourced, remove.