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Reuters: Ukraine’s top cyber official attends Black Hat hacker convention in US

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Victor Zhora, deputy head of Ukraine’s State Special Communications Service, attended a Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas on Aug. 10, according to Reuters. In his address, he said Ukraine has experienced 1,600 “major cyber incidents” since the invasion — triple the pre-war numbers. Zhora mentioned that the country has been moving its data to European data centers, with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google offering pro-bono cloud services.

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