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HOW AN ENTIRE NATION BECAME RUSSIA'S TEST LAB FOR CYBERWAR
For the past 14 months, Yasinsky had found himself at the center of an enveloping crisis. A growing roster of Ukrainian companies and government agencies had come to him to analyze a plague of cyberattacks that were hitting them in rapid, remorseless succession.
A single group of hackers seemed to be behind all of it. Now he couldn’t suppress the sense that those same phantoms, whose fingerprints he had traced for more than a year, had reached back, out through the internet’s ether, into his home.
the blackouts weren’t just isolated attacks.
They were part of a digital blitzkrieg that has pummeled Ukraine for the past three years—a sustained cyber*assault unlike any the world has ever seen.
A hacker army has systematically undermined practically every sector of Ukraine: media, finance, transportation, military, politics, energy.
Wave after wave of intrusions have deleted data, destroyed computers, and in some cases paralyzed organizations’ most basic functions.
“You can’t really find a space in Ukraine where there hasn’t been an attack,”
says Kenneth Geers, a NATO ambassador who focuses on cybersecurity.
In a public statement in December, Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, reported that there had been
6,500 cyberattacks on 36 Ukrainian targets in just the previous two months.
International cybersecurity analysts have stopped just short of conclusively attributing these attacks to the Kremlin, but Poroshenko didn’t hesitate:
Ukraine’s investigations, he said, point to the “direct or indirect involvement of secret services of Russia, which have unleashed a cyberwar against our country.”
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It's assuringly wonderful that Repugs have resisted ALL attempts to protect, harden US voting machines?
And the Repug Federal initiative to force states to harden all their systems, with Federal funds to implement the mandate leaves weeping with joy.
