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I’m surprised when these increasingly frequent outages at large internet companies happen I don’t see tons of suggestions that Russia (or China, or North Korea)
by elondaits 5y ago
I’m surprised when these increasingly frequent outages at large internet companies happen I don’t see tons of suggestions that Russia (or China, or North Korea) is behind them.
Is all cyber warfare completely underground and invisible?
- jpgvm 5y agoCyberattacks look every different to degraded query performance. You could in theory pull off an attack like that but it seems sort of dumb because it's not destructive/permanent so unless the timing it really critical it's probably a huge waste of a (likely expensive) exploit chain. If you have deep enough access to degrade performance of the database you likely have deep enough access for exfiltration or other more nefarious activities.
- elondaits 5y agoI sometimes think in that direction as well... but in the case of degraded query performance it could be simple a DOS attack, where they found some combination of operations that brings the db down... and they exploit it because they don't expect it to do anything more than this. If you want your enemy to fear the repercussions of attacking you, you need him to understand the strength you have to fight back. And in the case of cyberwarfare the only way to show strength is by hacking stuff... so I imagine there's some value in smaller not-so-destructive attacks.