Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response

I collected the quantitative data from online archives of the four Russian-language media outlets: TASS (https://tass.ru/), Rossiyskaya Gazeta (https://rg.ru/), RIA Novosti (https://ria.ru/), and Lenta.ru (https://lenta.ru/). In each case, I used the Russian-language interface and the Search function of the respective websites. The data were selected manually (without any software) and inserted into Excel spreadsheets, forming four datasets: TASS (Dataset_TASS.xlsx), Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Dataset_ Rossiyskaya_Gazeta.xlsx), RIA Novosti (Dataset_ RIA_Novosti.xlsx), and Lenta.ru (Dataset_Lenta.ru.xlsx). All datasets contain publication date of reports and respective URL (with the exception of Dataset_ RIA_Novosti.xlsx which contains hyperlinks). In each dataset, the reports containing attribution of cyberattacks against Russia are highlighted in yellow. These reports are cited and analyzed in greater detail in the “Public Attribution of Cyberattacks in Russia: Longitudinal Media Analysis” section of my paper.