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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnonymous has followed through on their threats.
CNBC ran a story about cybersecurity experts who looked into their claims, and they have turned out to be largely fulfilled.
"Anonymous declared a 'cyber war' against Russia. Here are the results."
Of 100 Russian databases that were analyzed, 92 had been compromised, said Fowler [a cybersecurity expert].
They belonged to retailers, Russian internet providers and intergovernmental websites, including the Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS, an organization made up of Russia and other former Soviet nations that was created in 1991 following the fall of the Soviet Union.
Many CIS files were erased, hundreds of folders were renamed to "putin_stop_this_war" and email addresses and administrative credentials were exposed, said Fowler, who likened it to 2020's malicious "MeowBot" attacks, which "had no purpose except for a malicious script that wiped out data and renamed all the files."
More details at the link.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/anonymous-declared-a-cyber-war-against-russia-here-are-the-results/ar-AAV7lrM
Me.
(35,454 posts)onecaliberal
(32,763 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)Maybe redirect them to the Black Sea where Russian ships might be good targets.
ProfessorGAC
(64,817 posts)But, theater defense systems are on closed networks with no physical connection into broader networks.
The US & NATO have that protocol, so I'm going to assume everyone else does. Makes perfect sense that they would design it that way.
AllyCat
(16,135 posts)This far. Maybe they botched this too. Worth a look.
Angleae
(4,479 posts)Their security protocols could still be Stalin-era systems.
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)But other targets is a good idea too.
3Hotdogs
(12,319 posts)tp go up and make a U turn, back to the sender. I believe that is how Gaddafi's daughter was killed.
intrepidity
(7,272 posts)wryter2000
(46,023 posts)Not to be ungrateful for what they have done, but they do tend to exaggerate their own importance.
essaynnc
(799 posts)Faux news next?
ancianita
(35,925 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)iemanja
(53,010 posts)They aren't on the web but rather closed networks. Can't really hack them unless you get into their internal network, which isn't possible from across the world. I have great expertise in this matter from watching movies.
lastlib
(23,132 posts)...to input codes from a thumb drive instead of an 8-inch floppy disk. Yeah, the systems were that old--way pre-internet, and thus unhackable from outside.
msfiddlestix
(7,270 posts)As it happens, I'm reading John Le Carre's last book (published postmortem) titled Silverview. In this espionage story depicts the leak of top security data which could only have been leaked from a closed network system located deep underground built in rural England built during WWII. There are tunnels to these underground facilities and tightly controlled entrance systems. However the heart of the facilities where the main closed-network systems reside happen to be located under a house which at one time was under British Military Security services.
I'm just at a point in the story that an investigation into the leak reveals to be related to the occupant of the house who was supposed to be a highly trusted agent. A brilliant analyst who is dying of cancer but has an agent she's been friends with for decades living with her or is a frequent visitor and who might be the source for compromised system.
Books and films tell fictional stories loosely based on facts, certain kinds of contextual details which can be easily extrapolated, right?
smiling, because I am in no position to factually state if any of these things are in fact, true. But sure seems plausible. There might be Russian Military or Security agents working for the West. Just as there are and were Russian Agents in very our Military, CIA, NSA, FBI etc. At least we know there are at best "unwitting" agents when they open mouths in support of Putin.
iemanja
(53,010 posts)I'll have to check out that book.
msfiddlestix
(7,270 posts)borrowing from the library. if it should ever be published on audio, I will purchase a long with a few other faves of his for my continued enjoyment. I've read tinker taylor so many times I could practically recite word for word a great deal of the dialogue. and I do so out loud. ha ha.
I thought Agents Running in the Field was his last, and it was while still alive. He narrated a few of his own books on audio. That reading seemed labored in his breathing, so I could feel his time with us was soon to end, much to my sorrow. I was saddened when I read the news but read he passed just before finishing his last book, which turned out be Silveview. I think his son finished it for him.(fact check that, I'm not positive)
My high school teacher gave me her copy of the Spy who came in from the Cold way back in the 60's, Not sure why she thought I'd be interested but she was right even though it was totally over my head. I re-read a few times over the years, which totally hooked me for George Smiley and his arch nemesis referred to as "Karla". I only hungered for more Smiley and Karla but I think a lot of his fans were too.
Then when he wrote Legacy of Spies, I believe it was a way of putting to bed the career of George Smiley and his agents like Peter Guillam once and for all. It was a fantastic recall (by way of British Intelligence investigations into Cold War's off book espionage operations ) into all of the main events starting with drama around Alec Leamus Spy from the Cold onward from a totally different perspective and also tying up loose ends. Though I believe there were a few occurrences of inconsistencies with his own writing, where he took license to change a few details and time lines. But that could be my own perceptions or lapses in memory pf sequences. Highly recommend if you haven't yet read it.
Guess I'll have to read them all to fill in my memory gaps.
Larissa
(788 posts)I am a huge Le Carre fan. (Devastated when he passed.) Read his Karla Trilogy books, among others, and have repeatedly watched the DVD's of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (both British and American versions) as well as "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold." His books are also worth reading repeatedly. (I was trying to hold off on getting "Silverview," but you've influenced me to do so.) Le Carre had a mind like a steel trap. His interviews are mesmerizing because he is profoundly elegant and articulate while breaking down his presentations in brilliant, flawless order.
msfiddlestix
(7,270 posts)just in the middle. It isn't terribly long, I'm afraid to get through too soon. I'll have to return sooner than I want.
Don't know if it will ever be on CD audio format. I hope so.
I love listening to good books well narrated. At some point, I'm going to attempt to buy up as many of his audio formatted books because I never tire of listening.
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)I am growing weary of all this. It feels a lot like the Cuban thing back in the 60s only much worse. I have to limit my time with the news, can only process so much.
ancianita
(35,925 posts)Totally with you. Here we were busy fighting for the soul of America, and then Putin pulls this shit.
Glad we vote for people to handle this for us. There's no one better than Biden.
If we were under Trump I'd be in another country by now.
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)smb
(3,471 posts)Maybe their hackers are as weak as their army when the rubber meets the road (and blows out).
I'd like to think that one likely reason is that Russia can't afford to outsource anymore.
I'd also like to think that cyber teams, paid or not, probably know what's going on in the real world, and just refuse to contribute more damage, and then just make excuses that they're being slammed.
Microsoft has had major cyber teams slamming Russia, actually. They stepped up.
thucythucy
(8,037 posts)without Trump in office trying to compromise our cyber security, the experts inside government are free to do their job without interference and distraction.
ancianita
(35,925 posts)C Moon
(12,208 posts)hack attempts have all but stopped on my sites.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Stop the war or never gain access to your computers again.
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)OhioTim
(256 posts)The US is supposed to have the best cyber warfare in the world. Wonder what we're doing?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Rather than bringing down a system that can be diagnosed better low profile actions that continue unnoticed. For example compromising the internal computers of advanced tanks so they malfunction in the field.
It's called "spiking the muskets". During the American Revolutionary War the American rebels would gain access to
British armories and rather than steal the muskets would "spike" it with a rod so that the arms would appear normal but not fire on the field. Better to compromise systems that go undetected and repeat than get a one time flashy result.
reACTIONary
(5,765 posts)ancianita
(35,925 posts)They'd been coordinating with Biden's cyber command and Ukraine became the stress test of part of the new private/public cyber structure we're developing.
Within three hours, Microsoft threw itself into the middle of a ground war in Europe from 5,500 miles away. The threat center, north of Seattle, had been on high alert, and it quickly picked apart the malware, named it FoxBlade and notified Ukraines top cyberdefense authority. Within three hours, Microsofts virus detection systems had been updated to block the code, which erases wipes data on computers in a network.
Then Tom Burt, the senior Microsoft executive who oversees the companys effort to counter major cyberattacks, contacted Anne Neuberger, the White Houses deputy national security adviser for cyber- and emerging technologies. Ms. Neuberger asked if Microsoft would consider sharing details of the code with the Baltics, Poland and other European nations, out of fear that the malware would spread beyond Ukraines borders, crippling the military alliance or hitting West European banks.
Before midnight in Washington, Ms. Neuberger had made introductions and Microsoft had begun playing the role that Ford Motor Company did in World War II, when the company converted automobile production lines to make Sherman tanks.
After years of discussions in Washington and in tech circles about the need for public-private partnerships to combat destructive cyberattacks, the war in Ukraine is stress-testing the system. The White House, armed with intelligence from the National Security Agency and United States Cyber Command, is overseeing classified briefings on Russias cyberoffensive plans. Even if American intelligence agencies picked up on the kind of crippling cyberattacks that someone presumably Russian intelligence agencies or hackers threw at Ukraines government, they do not have the infrastructure to move that fast to block them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/us/politics/ukraine-russia-microsoft.html
wnylib
(21,300 posts)enabling a hacking monster to deal with after the Russian war against Ukraine.
Cha
(296,732 posts)usaf-vet
(6,161 posts)iemanja
(53,010 posts)Blue Owl
(50,235 posts)lol.
cstanleytech
(26,213 posts)evidence of criminal activity by varies politicians worldwide including inside the US that have been knowingly working for and with the Russians I would be more impressed.
usonian
(9,671 posts)The enemy of my enemy is my ... enemy?
Welcome to a complex world.
NRA confirms last years ransomware attack
A Russian hacking group took credit for the hack
By Emma Roth Mar 19, 2022, 2:00pm EDT
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/19/22986501/nra-confirms-ransomware-attack-hack
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has confirmed it was the subject of a ransomware attack that took place last October, according to a report from Gizmodo.
In a filing to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the organizations political action committee (PAC), explains the NRA experienced a ransomware attack on October 20th, 2021 that brought its network offline for two weeks. Since the NRA wasnt able to access email or network files until the second week of November, the NRA failed to report nearly $2,500 worth of donations, which was the reason for the filing.
Last year, a Russian cybercriminals group that goes by the name of Grief took credit for allegedly hacking the NRA and posting what appeared to be stolen documents on the dark web. Grief, which is said to be associated with well-known Russia-based hacking group Evil Corp, threatened to release more documents if its payment threshold wasnt met.
Theres no word on whether the NRA ever paid up. The organization never publicly confirmed the attack at the time, and instead issued a statement on Twitter, saying it does not discuss matters relating to its physical or electronic security, and that it takes extraordinary measures to protect information.
iemanja
(53,010 posts)They did one good thing. Only one.
smb
(3,471 posts)What, did they get upset that Wayne LaPierre was keeping too big a cut for himself?
ShazzieB
(16,261 posts)i am cackling!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Icanthinkformyself
(215 posts)they're on 'our' side. But, what if they weren't? I like what they are doing now. But, what if..............
TexasBushwhacker
(20,125 posts)have been arrested over the years, from what I've read, it's all for just hacking and screwing with things. I've never read any went after money. It's really hard to stop someone who is unwilling to be bought.