By Mitzi Perdue

One of Russia’s specialties is to create fake bomb threats, Lieutenant Colonel Vitaly Pankov of the Kyiv Cyber Police told me in a Zoom interview. They develop fake accounts, simulating schools, shopping centers or government institutions and spread fake bomb threat alerts.

“The clear objective is to undermine a sense of stability and safety,” Pankov told me. “They want to make people feel scared and that their government can’t protect them. They never stop or slow down. It’s a constant flow of attacks.”

Most of us know about Russia using rockets to destroy targets like schools, hospitals and power plants. But the destruction Pankov is up against is just as harmful, yet also invisible. Pankov from the Kyiv Region Cyber Police is a digital warrior.

“They are using the digital battlefield to go after all aspects of online life, like mobile phones, banks, commerce, email, and internet service providers,” he told me. “They create denial of service so that no one can conduct commerce, and they attack anything related to data........

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