Sberbank Data Center Attacked by Drones

The attack on Sberbank’s data center is the latest target of Ukraine’s cyber campaign. After the attack on Yandex, the Russian equivalent of Google, Russians have directly felt the consequences of Vladimir Putin’s war. The incident with Sberbank could affect not only its clients but also clients of other banks, according to the Russian economic newspaper.

Sberbank is the largest payment agent in Russia, so a potential failure of its systems could disrupt card payments and transactions through the Fast Payment System. The scale of the consequences would depend on whether the damage to the data center led to a disruption of services and how long the unavailability lasted.