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US-CERT Releases IP addresses, domains, and malware signatures used by Russians
- est 10y agoprevious discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279600
- mjolk 10y agoWorth noting as this submission has a much "stronger" title.
- devoply 10y agoImagine if non-state actors could make relationships between any two states bitter. They could do that conceivably now. For whatever gain. For instance country A attacks third world country B. country B's sympathetic hackers hack country A from country B and force them into a confrontation. Who is working for whom? Who actually knows. We're in that sort of cyber punk era. Like for instance hackers from the Ukraine could do some shit to Russia as retaliation via attacking US targets from Russia or vice versa. Whatever two states are suspecting of each other could be exploited. Major actors have already been playing these sort of games, now they are available for pretty much anyone to exploit. tl;dr You average Joe hacker can now potentially start wars from his mother's basement.
- tdkl 10y agoWhat's new here ? This was always the case (using foreign hacked boxes to hide your origin) only now we're bombarded by this because of using it for political show.
- devoply 10y agoNot really, before you could potentially do a bit of economic damage to a company. The threat now is more real to governments as far as I can tell. It's possible for hackers to do real damage and I think that's what scares governments. And those hackers don't actually need resources to pull it off. And if you look at it from Obama's perspective. Say that it was true that this sort of thing played some part in Trump getting elected. Well that means that people like that can damage politics of a country, the most powerful country in the world, with disastrous results. They know the damage it can cause because they have used these tools, and they are scared. That's what new. They weren't scared before.