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True, but they’ve certainly been doing it much longer than ten years. I’ll never forget this headline [0] that struck me as purely devilish, especially in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. Combine that with the knowledge that Trump has been anti-NATO since the 1980s [1]. Who knows how long Russia has been nudging him along. Who knows how many avenues they traverse? Take for example the letter to Senator…
You don’t remember Trump Moscow? Ivanka? Trump and Russian connections go all the way back to Epstein’s early days.
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
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Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
#72For what purpose? Cui bono?
Poland is a major logistical hub for everything going towards Ukraine. Thus targeting basic infrastructure like energy grid or railroad have to be expected. On the bright side, using these weapon grade malware is burning exploits and also showing current state and techniques of Russian cyberwarfare which defender can learn a lot from.
While there's some overlap in methodologies and back-and-forth with various escalations, so-called malware is distinct from software exploits. Malware can be delivered without an exploit and quite often is. Social engineering is highly effective.
Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
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> On the bright side, using these weapon grade malware is burning exploits and also showing current state and techniques of Russian cyberwarfare which defender can learn a lot from. Or perhaps they used an already-known malware to measure defensive capabilities without showing any of their cards.
You'd think it would've been done during the summer or some other time when that wouldn't matter then.
No, of course not. They want to also measure response in the physical aspects (like electricians thot would have to drive some time to arrive on site). They're testing end-to-end, so to say. There's no testing like testing in production.
Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
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before anyone jumps on the pedantry bandwagon, its worth noting that even though open war hasn’t been called: the attacks on infrastructure especially cyber warfare is extremely active and, crucially, direct. It is totally fair to say that in a digital context, Russia is absolutely at war with Europe. As far as I can tell, they don’t even try to hide it.
What I am starting to appreciate about these digital infrastructure attacks is that they may be reversible and or temporary. It can be a nice feature.
Deaths resulting from such attack are not reversible.
Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
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Russia is at war with Europe.
Thankfully we'll magically stop being at war with Russia once Ukraine gives up :P
Haha yep :P
Next is Moldova.
Then Latvia and Lithuania.
Then Estonia and Northern Finland/Norway.
Then Romania and Bulgaria.
Putin has already said many times that he intends to rebuild the Russian empire to its zenith.
Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
#76For what purpose? Cui bono?
The most obvious answer is Russia(or one of their allies like China or Iran) did it because Poland is supporting Ukraine in the war (directly, and also indirectly by letting stuff from other countries be staged and move through Poland).
That would be the most obvious answer, but Russia wants to keep Poland off-balance over the next 2 decades so that they won't intervene as Russia captures its neighbors. You'll see a lot more sabotage in France if Europe agrees to a new nuclear defense pact.
Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
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Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
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You're conveniently omitting these all happened in response to the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. But thanks for proving the point about Russia's disinformation war.
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Did you actually read all the posts pointing this and all the _other_ aggressive actions Russia is taking against the EU?
Regardless, Russia is a bully and sticking your head in the sand won't make them go away.
Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
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Russia is at war with Europe.
Does Europe overall feel and act like that’s the case though? It seems as if the European war has been pushed to the background recently, and most people kind of forgot about it. If you walk down the streets of Paris or Berlin does it look like it’s wartime, do people talk about it much, do they share the latest front news and so on?
Berlin recently had a blackdown caused by domestic terrorists.
Re: Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
#80Poland has a high alertness status for like 5 years now. So there was time to be prepared.