2 Cybersecurity Stocks To Profit From Russia’s War

Russia’s Crash Override Has Zero Cool

Great Ones, there are two wars going on right this very second.

The first one we all know about. How could we not? Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is plastered all over every financial and regular news media site in the world right now.

This “hot” war is expected to drastically impact oil and natural gas prices, potentially impact semiconductor production, provide an influx of revenue for defense-contractor companies and generally cause mayhem for the U.S. Federal Reserve.

(Yes, I know there are political and humanitarian impacts as well. It’s war, after all. But this is a financial publication, and I’m not delving into those murky waters here … except to say that I stand firmly with Ukraine.)

But there is a second war that’s about to kick off, and it won’t be limited to Russia or Ukraine’s borders. This war will be a cyberwar, conducted in that “series of tubes” we call the internet.

We all know Russia has a considerable stable of very capable hackers who have hit everything from banks to oil pipelines to national power grids to elections … and everything in between.

You can bet your bottom dollar that Russian hackers are going to go on the offensive after the latest round of anti-war sanctions.

In fact, Wedbush Analyst Dan Ives had this to say over the weekend:

With the historical move by the U.S., Europe, and Canada to remove select Russia banks from the Swift global financial/messaging system and Russian central bank sanctions, we now expect, unfortunately, a significant ramp-up of cyber warfare by Russian nation-state backed organizations over the coming weeks.

U.S. banking institutions and utility companies are already preparing for the worst, with U.S. officials noting that preparations began back in November for “any potential disruptions to our critical infrastructure and possible impacts to individuals and communities.”

Unfortunately, Russia is only one of the cyberwarfare players in this game. Anonymous — remember them? — came out this weekend and declared war on Russia.

Now, if you’ve followed the decentralized, international hacking collective since its 2003 debut, you know Anonymous is just as…