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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.
Ya think?
Actually, name one country that they aren't attacking.
Sad!
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A fine piece of good solid reporting, good sir.
This is lies used to attack peaceful friendly Russia and will not go unanswered.
So just how much damage was done in those "massive" previous attacks, and how long did it take to restore the power grid and factories? Was it worse than squirrels or a hurricane?
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
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Hacker: Oh, stop stalling. Come on.
Cisco: I can't think, there's all this noise.
Hacker: Or is it because I've built a stronghold around Greenland? I've driven you out of Western Europe and I've left you teetering on the brink of complete annihilation.
Cisco: I'm not beaten yet. I still have routers in the Ukraine.
Hacker: Ha ha, the Ukraine. Do you know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Cisco. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.
Ukrainian: I come from Ukraine. You not say Ukraine weak.
Hacker: Yeah, well we're playing a game here, pal.
Ukrainian: Ukraine is game to you?! Howbout I take your little keyboard and smash it!!
The Ukrainian pounds the keyboard, destroying it and sending pieces flying.
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At what point can we just sever as much internet traffic out of Russia to the world? I know I'm massively oversimplifying that effort, but should there not be some sort of 'death penalty' against countries engaging in cyber warfare? China and some other smaller nations would likely keep connections which would make it hard to filter between Russian and Chinese communications, but any directly from Russia could be subject to either massive slowdown or complete blocking.
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.
They the fuck is their electrical infrastructure online
Cyber warfare seems to be becoming the new way to tax governments aside from climate change.
Ukraine is weak!
If Russia is trying to convince Ukraine to ally with Russia instead of the European Union, they are going about it in exactly the wrong way.
While Cisco and others are warning the sky is about to fall, I didn't see in the article as to which vendor the routers / storage devices belong to.
Nor any mention of how said malware got there in the first place.
Cisco ? Juniper ? What ?
Don't tell me the digital world is about to end, then leave off the details. :|
You are just making these up now, right?
Have no fear. APK will be along shortly to spam about his hosts file shell script now able to run on linux and how it will eventually defeat this new attack weeks or months after it has taken place. Expect out of context quotes, shareware lists from the 90s, or other random non sequiturs posted as support. If you dare question him you will be called a ne'er-do-well and challenged to prove that you have written something better than a throwaway assignment for an intro course to systems administration. If you continue to mock APK he will go into a rage and either spam the same thing over and over, or will go full retard level eleven billion and post some truly awful rants.
So sick of hearing "high confidence" when it comes to the dastardly actions of Russia (or Iraq, or Libya, or Iran, or Cuba, or Venezuela, or NK, or any other country that won't play by our rules). Are we ever going to see conclusive proof about anything before we start sabre rattling?
How massive? So just how much damage is done when you're lying on the ground and someone kicks you in the face? How long did it take to recover from that? Was it worse than the other one kicking your crotch?
If not, let's imply that it's ok to be kicked in the crotch.
Fake Comment Sad!
Cisco Systems on Wednesday warned that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers
Translation: Cisco realized they screwed up and sold 500,000 routers to Ukranians without a secure default root password, figures they'll blame Russia for the impending breaches to follow.
These stories are lies made only to hurt Russia for politics by liberal left. Don't believe them!
See also the full Cisco Talos post, New VPNFilter malware targets at least 500K networking devices worldwide, which has all of the technical details, including all indicators of compromise (IOCs).
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I haven't seen any evidence that they are attacking San Marino.
if you use closed source routers you deserve to be attacked. fuck you.
According to the article, Ukraine claimed the campaign was in preparation for an attack on Ukraine, not any security firm. Bit strange that the summary claims otherwise
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in their own hardware. You may want to take what they say with a grain of salt.