"NGOs granted free cybersecurity services to combat attacks during war"

The Red Cross recently issued ethical guidelines for civilian hackers involved in armed conflicts, but hacktivist groups in Ukraine and Russia have scorned and ridiculed these guidelines. Ukrainian hacker groups, such as Hdr0 and Cyber Anarchy Squad, expressed their disregard for the Red Cross' authority and stated their intention to cause harm to their enemies using any means available. Pro-Russian hacking groups, including Killnet and Anonymous Sudan, also dismissed the guidelines, deeming them unviable and unavoidable to break. The Red Cross guidelines emphasized humanitarian law-based rules, but hacktivists argued that cyberattacks on critical and civilian infrastructure are a more humane alternative to bombings and other destructive attacks. The Red Cross has faced criticism for its branches in Russia and Belarus allegedly being used by totalitarian regimes to abduct and illegally traffic Ukrainian children.