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If it's a state actor - the Chinese and Russians do it for practice and to sow general chaos / destruction of US infrastructure, costing money and tying up reso
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
If it's a state actor - the Chinese and Russians do it for practice and to sow general chaos / destruction of US infrastructure, costing money and tying up resources. Sometimes it's just to slow down other country's academics.
If it's not, it's a group doing it for practice, the lulz...and under the encouragement (or at least ambivalence) of the Russian or Chinese.
- lionkor 3y ago[flagged]
- brabel 3y agoDo we really need to bring in russo/sinophobia into this? As the article explains: the attackers likely don't even know it's an observatory. Hackers will attack anything they find wide open, and anyone with a public server on the internet knows, they scan the whole internet all the time looking for victims - and they mostly don't care who the victim is as long as it can pay off.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- mlrpac 3y ago[flagged]
- chwahoo 3y agoRussian hacking is very real. Highly recommend https://www.amazon.com/Sandworm-Cyberwar-Kremlins-Dangerous-Hackers-ebook/dp/B07GD4MFW2 https://www.amazon.com/Sandworm-Cyberwar-Kremlins-Dangerous-...
- 65a 3y agoYou're replying to a 1 hour old account, they may not have read any of the frequent breach and ransomware related articles here.
- genter 3y agoOr, it really is Russian trolls, and they don't bother posting on July 4th because they know no one is online on that day and it's a waste of time.