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Cyber Firms Warn on Suspected Russian Plan To Attack Ukraine (reuters.com)
Jim Finkle, reporting for Reuters: Cisco Systems on Wednesday warned that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with highly sophisticated malicious software, possibly in preparation for another massive cyber attack on Ukraine. Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence unit said it has high confidence that the Russian government is behind the campaign, dubbed VPNFilter, because the hacking software shares code with malware used in previous cyber attacks that the U.S. government has attributed to Moscow. Cisco said the malware could be used for espionage, to interfere with internet communications or launch destructive attacks on Ukraine, which has previously blamed Russia for massive hacks that took out parts of its energy grid and shuttered factories. Head of Ukraine's cyber police said on Wednesday that the agency is aware of new large malware campaign, and that it is working to protect Ukraine against possible new cyber threat.
Do you recall the GOP's position before the election was to allow the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine, and a Trump campaign representative convinced them to change it to "non-lethal" weapons?
Whatever happened to that? I heard it was Paul Manasfort but the details were never filled in as to who that was.
Also I know that they Trump's defence department approved $40 million in *sniper*rifles* to Ukraine, but then again they let sniper rifles be sold to drugged up teenagers with mental problems. Did they ever allow the anti tank missiles and anti aircraft defense systems the Ukrainians wanted to buy?
Cisco vulnerable routers aside, there is an actual fighting zone there with actual bullets. It's not all just hacking, election rigging and hookers.