“Recent years had seen a boom in the use of ransomware, which scrambles victims’ computer data until a payment is made. Now, (Chairman of ISSP, a Ukrainian computer-security firm, Oleh) Derevianko says, the number of such attacks on ISSP’s corporate and government clients has dropped pretty-much to zero. Instead, many of those once involved in such enterprises seem to have been co-opted by Russia’s government and are focusing on ‘wiping’ computers to damage Ukraine’s war effort by erasing whatever data they can reach.”
