Cormac O'Keeffe: Cyberattacks could be used to fund sanction-hit Russia's war machine 

Ireland may not escape the impact of the attacks

'We monitor the dark web and there’s a lot of talk out there that Russia is going to be engaging in cybersecurity ransomware attacks for funding, because sanctions are having such a huge effect,' one source said. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

In a recent blog, the former head of Britain’s cyber security agency, Professor Ciaran Martin, said Russia was home to the “world’s largest concentration of cyber criminals”.

Quoting industry estimates, he said nearly three-quarters of the exponentially rising revenue from ransomware in 2021 went to cyber gangs in Russia.