Russian threat prompts elevated bank security

Russian-based hacking of financial institutions may have not reached the volume many feared before the onset of the Ukrainian war, but that’s not to say that people are letting their guards down.

“Attacks have been on the rise every year,” especially during the past five years, said Scott Warner, president of Connecting Point of Greeley and chairman of the Greeley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Sources contacted for this story were contacted before the March 22 White House announcement that Russian state-sponsored hackers were preparing for attacks, primarily to disrupt energy related targets,…