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Cyberattack Hits Ukrainian Websites as Russia Tensions Mount (bloomberg.com) 28

Ukraine's worst cyberattack in four years brought down the websites of scores of government agencies for hours. Authorities didn't immediately identify the source of the hacks, which took place as tensions with Russia intensified over its troop buildup across the border. From a report: Seventy government agencies were were hit, including the Foreign and Agriculture Ministries, Viktor Zhora, the deputy head of the state agency in charge of special communication and information protection, said Friday. Authorities are investigating and will have their first conclusions later in the day, he said. "There was no leak of important data, the content of the websites was not damaged," Ukraine Zhora said. "We are collecting digital evidence and analyzing data to understand the full chain of this attack." Ukraine has previously accused Russia of mounting major cyberattacks against its digital infrastructure. Relations between the two former Soviet partners have worsened since the ouster of a Russian-backed president in 2014 and Moscow's subsequent annexation of Crimea.
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  • by Anonymous Coward

    Everyone blames Putin likes he's some sort of monster but if you met him you'd probably like him (as long as you were into petty dictators) and it isn't his fault he's butthurt about Russia having lost the cold war. They probsably didn't tell him Russia was a second rate power now when they offered him the job.

  • No, let's all focus on China and Taiwan.

    Despite Russia recently annexing Crimea and obviously aiming for Ukraine in this year, the biggest threat is obviously China who said they want to be the world's manufacturing hub.
    • Re: Taiwan (Score:3, Insightful)

      by MacColossus ( 932054 )
      Why not both???? China takes Taiwan the US and the rest of the west are in trouble. TSMC makes chips for Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Arm, Broadcom, etc.
      • by Anonymous Coward

        China is watching [theatlantic.com] the West's involvement with Ukraine with great interest. In addition to the article, I can imagine a school of PRC military thought wherein if the US gets involved in Ukraine, that's the best time to invade ROC.

    • Nice post. Never mind the fact that China has active territorial claims on territory belonging to well over a half dozen countries (many of whom are allies of ours). Or never mind the fact that China's military is rapidly improving and will be competitive to ours in a few decades.

      But yeah, sure, nothing to worry over from China.

      • Russia is literally on the verge of invading Ukraine this year. The annexation of Ukraine would put all of Europe at risk.

        And you're worried about decades.
        • by skam240 ( 789197 )

          I never said a thing about Russia. Obviously we should keep an incredibly close eye on them, in fact later on in this thread you'll find me saying that I think NATO should find itself with a major training exercise with its neighbor Ukraine within their borders as a means of putting off the Russians.

          What I was taking issue with was you minimalizing of China. China will be a challenge for the US long after the price of oil tanks and Russia turns into a failed state.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:31PM (#62172923)

    Ukraine has a larger technology industry than Russia does, because it is not a 2nd rate totalitarian kleptocracy like Russia. Nobody wants to do business in Russia ever. At best the outside world will buy the oil which Russia produces by plundering it's natural resources and sickening its workers.

    Russia is at best a giant gas station with a foreign policy which ensures it will never be a great economic power. Russia is isolated from the world's economy, and if it invades Ukraine as their thieving leader Putin has promised Russia will be cut off from the global banking system.

    What a sad waste of a country's resources and potential.

    This only works because Putin poisons the underpants of his political opposition. But even a dickless political prisoner has more balls than the petty tyrant who keeps Russia poor by stealing from the people and running the country into the ground.

    Lock Him Up.

    • by Anonymous Coward

      Ukraine has a larger technology industry than Russia does, because it is not a 2nd rate totalitarian kleptocracy like Russia. Nobody wants to do business in Russia ever. At best the outside world will buy the oil which Russia produces by plundering it's natural resources and sickening its workers.

      Russia is at best a giant gas station with a foreign policy which ensures it will never be a great economic power. Russia is isolated from the world's economy, and if it invades Ukraine as their thieving leader Putin has promised Russia will be cut off from the global banking system.

      What a sad waste of a country's resources and potential.

      This only works because Putin poisons the underpants of his political opposition. But even a dickless political prisoner has more balls than the petty tyrant who keeps Russia poor by stealing from the people and running the country into the ground.

      Lock Him Up.

      I say zap him with a Jewish space laser and feed him to a Kraken.

  • Relations between the two former Soviet partners...

    That's a funny way to spell "conquered [wikipedia.org] vassal state". Which Russian partisan wrote this article?

  • Not much comment from the borscht gallery. Everybody must be busy working on this.
  • Vlad needed them for a 'special mission' against Ukraine, so he had the FSB scoop them up so he could 'reassign' them to the Ukraine project.
  • I don't know why there isn't a big NATO training exercise happening with our dear neighbor Ukraine right in their country with an indefinite time limit. The Russians withdrawal their military from Ukraine's border and "oh, the NATO training exercise is over now".

    Modern day Russia is a shell of a country relative to the old Soviet Union, there's no way they'd risk a war with NATO.

    • They still have the nukes and a large land army, so they are like a giant North Korea that siphons money off the EU and China as the giant gas station it is. Even the actual puny North Korea with maybe 5 shitty nukes is not something others mess with. Oh and there is the fact that Putin doesn't mind human sacrifice at all, while the West, esp. Western Europe cannot fathom losing soldiers, and gas access, let alone letting their dense, historical cities threatened by Russian nukes.

      • by skam240 ( 789197 )

        Nukes threaten both ways. Putin may care less about his people then the West cares about its own but Putin does care about Russia and I think it's safe to say he doesnt want to see it turned into a wasteland.

        You're probably on point in regards to our allies in Europe though, many of them have shown very little backbone when it comes to dealing with Russia.

  • This is an obvious false-flag attack by the NSA, CIA or the FBI. We know from WikiLeaks Vault-7 releases of software, the NSA purposely developed software hacking tools that not only can infiltrate foreign servers, they can leave evidence that points to another actor. Judging from past actions of these corrupt US government agencies, all one has to know is that they have this capability to know they will use that capability to destabilize governments and create international tensions that can lead to war. A
  • I would RTFA but the paywall is blocking me. Anyone got a useful summary? Was this just a DOS? were only the public facing websites affected? was anything affected beyond recovery?

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