While individuals and smaller tech firms have stepped up to aid Ukraine, Anton Melnyk, an adviser to Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, said big tech, including Google, Meta, Twitter, YouTube, Netflix and AWS, “have been moving very slowly.'
The top of Salesforce Tower lights up in support of Ukraine on Monday. The embattled country is enlisting a global tech army to fight Russian cyber attacks and propaganda — and even hack Russian websites. At the same time, while Bay Area tech workers in Ukraine are risking their lives, that country is pushing the Bay Area’s biggest tech companies to do more to counter Russia’s manipulation of social media.
“This is going to be different,” said Jen Miller-Osborn of Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team in a Monday morning briefing. “These hacktivist groups becoming involved in this campaign… This isn’t something we’ve really seen in the past, especially not at this scale,” Miller-Osborn said in a webinar for cybersecurity professionals.
Mary Pylyp, the Ukrainian sales lead for San Francisco’s Very Good Security, is also working in Lviv for Ukraine’s cyber effort. She appreciates global online support, but urges people watching from the outside to understand how dangerous the situation in the country is. “We are in a war zone, and some people are not getting that. This isn’t just social media. We don’t know how this will end.”
Azhnyuk is the CEO of a PetCube, a startup that makes cameras for pet owners to keep an eye on their pets. Born in Ukraine, Azhnyuk lived in the Bay Area for six years and now lives in Ukraine again. He is hearing from “folks from Silicon Valley advocating fiercely within their companies to take a stand.”
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