"We think it has nothing to do with the governments, although we
also have some evidence that some foreign special services might stand behind
some very tense attacks," Dmitry Peskov said.
MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/. Russia suffers "hundreds and thousands" of cyberattacks emanating from the West daily, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the BBC.
"Every day, we have hundreds and thousands of cyberattacks against our digital systems in the Russian Federation. Some of them are coming from the territory of the United States. Dozens are coming from the territory of Germany, dozens coming from the Great Britain," Peskov said, adding that he does not think Western countries’ governments are behind these attacks.
"Do
you think that it means with a high state of certainty that those attacks
against our digital systems are being promoted by the governments in
Washington, in London or in Berlin? You will probably say no. It’s out of the
question," the Kremlin spokesman noted. "We think it has nothing to
do with the governments, although we also have some evidence that some foreign
special services might stand behind some very tense attacks against our banks
and against our official websites."
Peskov
again rejected accusations that Russia staged cyberattacks against Western
countries.
"Neither
Russian government nor Kremlin, nor President Putin personally, nor military
intelligence stand behind those attacks, if they really exist," he
emphasized.
