Microsoft's president says cyberattacks on Ukraine's civilian digital infrastructure 'raise serious concerns under the Geneva Convention,' which considers it a war crime to intentionally direct attacks against civilian populations or civilian objects.
Tech giants that provide services around the world prefer not to take sides in conflicts where they operate in both combatants' territory, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine isSmith said that Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center detected a "new round of offensive and destructive cyberattacks" targeting Ukraine's digital infrastructure hours before Russian military movement on Feb. 24.
The company notified the Ukrainian government and has since provided "threat intelligence and defensive suggestions" relating to attacks on targets including Ukrainian military institutions and other government agencies.
"These attacks on civilian targets raise serious concerns under the Geneva Convention," he said. The conventionMicrosoft has removed state-sponsored RT and Sputnik content from its platform and is de-ranking their search results on Bing so links will only show up when a user is looking for those pages directly, according to Smith.
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