Russia Launched Cyber Espionage Campaigns Against Ukraine Allies, Microsoft Says (thehill.com) 26
Russia has levied dozens of cyber espionage campaigns in 42 countries since it invaded Ukraine in February, according to a new Microsoft report. From a report: The report says those efforts have targeted entities across six continents and primarily focused on NATO allies and groups supporting Ukraine. "The Russian invasion relies in part on a cyber strategy that includes at least three distinct and sometimes coordinated efforts -- destructive cyberattacks within Ukraine, network penetration and espionage outside Ukraine and cyber influence operations targeting people around the world," Microsoft President Brad Smith said in the report. The tech giant previously detailed Russian cyber operations against Ukraine itself during the invasion in April. Sixty-three percent of the observed Russian activity in the 42 countries beyond Ukraine targeted NATO members, according to the new report. The United States has been Russia's top target, but the company also noted a large amount of activity in Poland -- which borders Ukraine and has provided significant military and humanitarian assistance to the country -- as well as the Baltic states.
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Nice you got the FP (compared to the three brain farts that lost the FP race), but do you care to expand on that thought, now that you have the soapbox and a bit more time? (Even better if you can add a joke. I could expand on your lead, but Funny is beyond me and I'm actually more curious where you'd start poking.)
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So ... (Score:2)
Bill Gates for President! (Score:3)
He's not a bug, he's a feature.
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Wrong. We are not attacking allies of Russia. Russia is attacking allies of Ukraine. We are all trying to push propaganda through the Internet, but only one side is attacking the other side's allies.
Why are you trying to defend these evil fuckers?
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Witness Medyedev, former president and PM of Russia, talking with full vitriol on Telegram about how Ukraine is not a country, how he wishes they were all dead, and so forth. Possibly he's trying to suck up to Putin because since 2020 he's been in an odd do-nothing position in the government. Article in Helsinki Sanomat about how the west mistook him for a friend back in 2007 when he turned out to be the rabid attack dog today.
He's not trying to suck up to Putin, he's trying to position himself as Putin's successor without seeming to threaten Putin while he's still alive (otherwise he might commit suicide or die in a random accident [businessinsider.com]).
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What US is not doing is having a team of hackers undermining Russians and other enemies, trying to crash their computer, post in someone else's name, etc.
Of course not - USA is known for not having a history of meddling with other states' affairs and undermine their governments and companies. /s
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"...Russians are racist, nationalist, uneducated, authoritarian bootlicking rapist pieces of shit. All of them. Unless they are out protesting and have been for years, every Russian deserves all the terrible shit that is going to happen to them. I want to see the pain on your face as you watch your kids starve, okay? We clear on our fucking relationship now?
Not posting anonymously, I want Russians to know how much I hate you..."
This kind of thinking lets you come to all sorts of conc
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Awww, you got modded troll for literally just posting what I actually said. What's that noise the kid from the Simpsons makes?
HAHA!
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The majority of people in the world think all of you Russians are complete garbage. You know that right? And you brought it on yourselves. You have no one to blame but your own faulty genetics. Shitty genes are why all Russians are subservient boot lickers who fall in line the moment a strong looking leader cracks the whip on their asses.
Russia will be a third world hell hole for generations thanks to your own failings.
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You Americans just whine whine whine. Nazis this. Russkies that. Russkies took care of the nazis in the 40s. Now they found new nazis to take care of, and they`re working on it. They like it, they whine not.
And you just whine whine whine. Oh our gas prices! Oh our lens of race! Oh our poor transgender kids!
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To paraphrase Pogo: "We have met the Nazis, and they are us." --Russia
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No, Russians are Nazis. The whole world knows it.
We aren't working on a final solution, you guys are doing it to yourselves. When your enemy is shooting themselves in the ass, just stand back and applaud. Your whole society is already dead, you just don't know it yet.
We don't whine, we send weapons to Ukraine that are killing you. Be sure to put some sunflower seeds in your pockets! A dead Russian can finally do some good in the world, acting as fertilizer.
You and your country are a laughingstock. The world
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I know you need to go fuck yourself. Howboutdat?
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This is a variation on the "Honor System virus" a friend of mine wrote and got circulating back in the early 90s, before AOL went to an unlimited rate. Nice to see its progeny still live. lol.
how many.... (Score:1, Troll)
...of the attacks used vectors the NSA/CIA hoarded and tried to keep from the Public and Vendors in order to weaponise?
Asking for a friend.
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