Internet attacks originating from Russia against the UK
are unlikely to occur as the row between Moscow and London
continues, a security expert has said.
Eugene Kaspersky, head of research and development at
Moscow-based anti-virus company
Kaspersky Lab said that the current political disagreement
would not affect long-term relations.
"It is very unlikely that this argument will spark some massive
attack wave from Russian hackers. Much unlike the
Estonian situation, the confrontation between the British and
Russian governments is practically not visible in Russia and is not
relevant to common Russian citizens at all," he said.
The Republic of Estonia came under a massive
cyber-attacks in May that targeted government servers with
distributed denial of service
(DDOS) attacks. Ports of particular mission-critical computers
in such as the telephone exchanges were targeted.
"In the Estonian case many people in Russia perceived the
removal of the Victory monument and soldiers' graves as a personal
insult," said Kaspersky.
"Purely political arguments are definitely not the case. In this
case it is officials who argue and feel insulted, not the people.
And officials are usually not very good at hacking."