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Civilian hackers involved in conflict zones – particularly those close to the Ukraine war -– have been handed a code of conduct by the Red Cross humanitarian organisation for the first time. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which has a role overseeing the rules of war, said patriotic hacking – such as pro-Syrian cyber attacks on Western media in 2013 – had accelerated since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Some of the groups we’re seeing on both sides are large and these ‘armies’ have disrupted… banks, companies, pharmacies, hospitals, railway networks and civilian government services,” ICRC legal adviser Dr Tilman Rodenhäuser told the BBC. The eight rules include a ban on cyber attacks on medical and humanitarian facilities, threats that foster terror among civilians and using malware that damages military and civilian objects indiscriminately. Some groups said they hadn’t decided whether to comply.
