v12 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:29 pm
Russia lacks both the resources (Human and money) as well as the core deep tech knowledge China has.
For those who doubt Russia's capabilities, a recently published book on the topic comes highly recommended. I think they'll learn that Russia is a lot more sophisticated than meets the eye.
"For experts, trying to definitively explain the full scope of a cybersecurity incident is often a difficult and delicate process. They normally don’t find reason to tie attacks back to 13th-century massacres at the hands of Mongolian warlords.
Yet, in “Sandworm,” the new book from Wired magazine’s Andy Greenberg, it’s the Mongols’ 13th-century raid on Ukraine (and other brutalities the region has endured) that helps explain why this area in the world has been linked to almost every major cyberattack in the past decade.
“Sandworm” chronicles the hacker group of the same name, diving into the hectic moments behind the Russian outfit’s attacks, which have hit targets from the Ukrainian power grid to international shipping conglomerates.
The book shows that attacks like BlackEnergy, NotPetya and Olympic Destroyer do not happen in a vacuum. Greenberg weaves them and others into a narrative that illuminates the personalities responsible for studying or thwarting Sandworm’s attacks. The net result is a story that’s miles away from technical jargon, exploring cyberwar’s ultimate consequence — the danger to people’s lives.
“I really wanted this book to be about human stories,” Greenberg told CyberScoop. “A more human book about cyberwar than had ever been written before.”
https://www.cyberscoop.com/sandworm-boo ... -cyberwar/