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Russia reports 'unprecedented' hacking campaign aimed at government agencies
- Invictus0 5y agoWell what was hacked? This report could hardly be more vague.
- fogihujy 5y agoAccording to an auto-translation of the report[1], it was aimed at "federal executive authorities": [1] https://rt-solar.ru/analytics/reports/2203/ https://rt-solar.ru/analytics/reports/2203/
- madars 5y agoThanks for the link! btw, the PDF report has been cached by Google so its HTML conversion is Google-translatable itself: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Frt-solar.ru%2Fupload%2Fiblock%2Fb55%2FAtaki-na-FOIV_otchet-NKTSKI-i-Rostelekom_Solar_otkrytyy.pdf https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
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- cainxinth 5y agoLive by the sword...
- evgen 5y ago"I can't believe anyone would target us" says nation that is notorious for state-sponsored hacks and mass disinformation campaigns that are so large and widespread that they actually have a bureaucracy tasked with managing all of the various operations in motion at any one time.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoWhat bureaucracy is that?
- garyrichardson 5y agoIn the US I’m assuming the CIA? Not sure what group manages this in Russia. To be fair, gp could be applied to many countries also including China, Russia, the US and I assume the UK.
- lucretian 5y agoin russia, i believe it's GRU
- evgen 5y agoIRA and a lot of the Russian APT groups have quite a bureaucratic system running the show once you actually start to do a bit of digging. Same for most western agencies as well, but that should be no surprise. I am not quite sure about the management of the various APT groups out of China; there is a bit of a reporting disconnect about the layer between the Ministry of State Security and the individual groups, but given how other groups/companies that are actually run by the PLA operate I am assuming a sizeable bureaucratic layer as well.
- Sideyon 5y agoAre you talking about the US, Russia, China, or some other major country?
- lamp987 5y agoThats a bit anti-american but okay
- 0x737368 5y agoExcuse me, but it hasn't even been an hour since the link was posted and there's already glaring US-centrism in the comments: "get what you deserve", "mass disinformation campaigns". Where have you guys been living? What news have you been watching? You realise that the same actions are done by the US and, to a lesser extent and limited by their capabilities, their allies. US developed an unprecedented malware capable of sabotaging airgapped nuclear facilities. And clearly US disinformation campaigns can't be faulted too since you people seem to think that Russia is really a threat at this point to the US.
- ticviking 5y agoIt always amazes me when my fellow Americans are shocked that after decades of the CIA and NSA using a trick on other countries they decide to fight back using the same dirty tactics.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoNot all countries are equal and should be treated as equivalent.
- christophilus 5y agoThere are only two comments, and I don’t think your interpretation is a charitable one. Anyway, given the numerous recent hacks, it does seem like we could easily be entering into an escalation. I really hope not, as that won’t end well for anyone.
- nradov 5y agoIf this encourages everyone to take cyber security seriously then that would be a good end. Regardless of who is behind these specific attacks, non-stop attacks against everyone are the new reality. We're going to have to learn to live with that.
- koheripbal 5y agoThere is an important distinction between attacking civilian-critical services like healthcare systems and pipelines, and attacking a single nuclear WEAPONS manufacturing plant in Iran.
- rossdavidh 5y agoSo, while watching the excellent "Great War" video series a few years back about World War 1, it repeatedly came up that the generals were caught off guard by how technology had changed war. In particular, the advantage had swung to the defense, and for the first time no matter how good the morale and courage of your charging troops, they could all get mowed down before they reached the enemy. It took a while before they realized that it was a new game. I suspect we are in a similar time, albeit in a mirror image way; the advantage has dramatically swung to the offense. You can attack your opponent's infrastructure, without even showing your face. We could end up in a cyber war aimed at each other's critical infrastructure (which has a real potential to kill people), without ever really deciding we wanted to go to war. The ability to even know who your opponent is, has never been as big a problem before. I suspect we will have some WW1-style misunderstandings at the top, in several countries.
- aphextron 5y ago>We could end up in a cyber war aimed at each other's critical infrastructure (which has a real potential to kill people), without ever really deciding we wanted to go to war. We're already there. Although most of it happens by way of modern day privateering. The Colonial pipeline hack was only possible because of the ability of de facto state sponsored groups like Darkside to exist. As long as there is an implicit guarantee of no consequences for attacking the west, they will continue to escalate.
- rossdavidh 5y ago"Privateering" is an excellent analogy (if it's even different enough to be considered an analogy, and not just more or less exactly the same thing).
- cudgy 5y agoAre you sure it was “Darkside”? If so, based on what evidence?
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- noisy_boy 5y agoSounds more like setting up the stage for deniability / future finger pointing / told-you-so etc.
- hahahasure 5y agoThe solution is to focus on security right? As much as I dream of a future with nanobots, a hacking campaign could make a nuclear bomb look like a stone-age tool.
- auiya 5y agoThe word "unprecedented" is doing some heavy lifting in this article.
- underseacables 5y agoSounds fun, I hope it’s successful.
- thunkshift1 5y agoWhat a fluff piece