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This is like a vaccination, a small challenge to a system that should both harden it and sensitize it to later challenges so they are detected and squashed quic

• BLKNSLVR 5y ago
  This is somewhat of an answer to why cyberattacks on industrial equipment aren't common: They want to keep them up their sleeve. Since-Crimea-annexation years to probe and penetrate with a view to mapping out the network in order to be able to actually strike it at the most opportune time. "As soon as you can" is very rarely the best timing. Preparation is key. This is where the NSA's of the world have the dual purposes of securing internal infrastructure and finding insecurities in any and all non-internal infrastructure. For the internal stuff, there is tension on disclosure if the same security holes are present externally as well. Whether this adversarial attack is what's happened in this case, who knows. The timing is certainly interesting, but you also can't rule out false flag operations to justify other countries 'entering the conflict'.