--- title: "Ukraine Cyberattack Receiving the Cyber expert Team from EU as a help" description: "Ukrainian websites were hacked by some unknown sources some claimed to be Russia behind them, now received the help as a team to deal with it." author: "Sanjay Goenka" published: 2022-02-23 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1445/ukraine-cyberattack-receiving-the-cyber-expert-team-from-eu-as-a-help category: "cybersecurity" tags: ["technology", "cybersecurity", "technology news", "cyber attacks", "cybersecurity challenges"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Ukraine Cyberattack Receiving the Cyber expert Team from EU as a help > **Ukraine is about to receive the Cyber Rapid-[Response Team](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/106965/what-is-a-hospital-rapid-response-team) (CRRT) after its call to the EU.** The [newly formed](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41068/which-two-countries-did-the-newly-formed-united-states-have-problems-with) team comprising 8 to 12 experts belongs to different places from Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Romania, and the Netherland, has aimed to protect Ukraine from such Cyberattacks remotely and on-site in the country. #### Highlights ``` Ukraine after facing huge cyberattacks calls for help to the EU. A team CRRT consist 8 to 12 cyber experts will be sent to Ukraine. Moscow denied being behind the cyberattack that happened in Ukraine. ``` **Also Read - [Russia Behind Ukraine DDoS Cyber Attacks: US, UK](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1435/russia-behind-ukraine-ddos-cyber-attacks-us-uk)** **[Ukraine went through a major cyberattack](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1240/ukraine-hacks-add-to-worries-of-cyber-conflicts-with-russia)** just a few days ago in which its many important websites were hacked including Bank and the military. Some of them started to work after some time but left are still under attack. Many great leaders and some [native states](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38097/what-were-the-options-before-the-indian-native-states-in-the-indian-independence-act) claimed Russia to be behind the attacks but Russia denied being the one behind the cyberattacks. Ukraine is told that it is going to receive help from its native states and [European Union](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81325/european-union-loses-to-china) Countries. A team objected to dealing with such cybercrime **Cyber Rapid-Response Team (CRRT)** is being deployed across Europe after a call for help from Ukraine. The team is made up of **8 to 12 members** from different countries Lithuania, Poland, Estonia, Romania, and the Netherlands. It has a specific object to defend Ukraine from cyberattacks remotely and on-site in the country. The CRRT official said “we can see that cyber measures are an important part of **Russia’s hybrid toolkit,**” it said with regard to the cyberattacks. It has been seen after the making of a team that the European Union is taking an initiative to deepen defence and cooperation between members state. An official also said about the team, it was “composed of different cyber expertise, such as incident response, forensic, [vulnerability assessment](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/158535/explain-the-concept-of-vulnerability-assessment-and-how-it-is-performed-in-ethical-hacking), to be able to react to a variety of scenarios.” Russia has always been in the [news](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/news) of Cyberattacks as many countries have blamed it. In 2015 and 2016, when multiple people in Ukraine experienced the power cut as a result of hackers temporarily shutting off the electric substation. Russia including Moscow has [never accepted](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81960/china-s-1956-lac-theory-which-india-never-accepted) such blame and said the blames are “**Russophobic.”** **Also Read - [Does Ukraine Cyberattack involve Russia as an attacker?](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1415/does-ukraine-cyberattack-involve-russia-as-an-attacker)** --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1445/ukraine-cyberattack-receiving-the-cyber-expert-team-from-eu-as-a-help Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.