TechScape: How the internet became a key front in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

In this week's newsletter: Google, Meta, Twitter, TikTok (and Elon Musk, obviously) have been dragged into the conflict

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The Russia-Ukraine war was always going to have a very major cyber component. And, in the past week, we have seen just how much the war is playing out online, on a wide array of fronts.

Given what we know and expect from Russia, it's unlikely to come as a shock that - according to data from Checkpoint Research - in the first three days of combat, cyber-attacks on Ukraine's government and military sector went up by 196%, compared to the rest of February.

We have a lot of talented Ukrainians in the digital sphere: developers, cyber specialists, designers, copywriters, marketers ... We continue to fight on the cyber front.