Leper
2024-02-07 05:29:26 UTC
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13029089/Notorious-Russia-gang-claims-stole-classified-secret-documents-intelligence-agencies-FBI-warns-China-hackers-preparing-wreak-havoc-America.html
Notorious Russia gang claims it stole 'classified and top
secret documents' from US intelligence agencies - as FBI
warns China hackers are preparing to 'wreak havoc' in America
Ransomware group ALPHV stole top-secret FBI and U.S.
intelligence documents
FBI director Christopher Wray warns PRC hackers will
take over America
. . .
Yep - they can get EVERYTHING. "Secret" stuff,
banks, infrastructure ... we made it SO easy
for sake of convenience.
Oh ... if they know what's in those 'secret'
dox then it means they weren't even encrypted.
What's up with that ? Oh, yea ... "trust your
provider to thoroughly encrypt your data" ...
I always pre-encrypted anything that was being
stored "in the cloud". Never spent a single
millisecond as plain text. Apparently yer govt
and vital services can't be bothered ......
Apologize for excess groups for Linux people,
but the same warnings apply.
Of all the «Shit Hits The Fan scenarios» this is one of, if not theNotorious Russia gang claims it stole 'classified and top
secret documents' from US intelligence agencies - as FBI
warns China hackers are preparing to 'wreak havoc' in America
Ransomware group ALPHV stole top-secret FBI and U.S.
intelligence documents
FBI director Christopher Wray warns PRC hackers will
take over America
. . .
Yep - they can get EVERYTHING. "Secret" stuff,
banks, infrastructure ... we made it SO easy
for sake of convenience.
Oh ... if they know what's in those 'secret'
dox then it means they weren't even encrypted.
What's up with that ? Oh, yea ... "trust your
provider to thoroughly encrypt your data" ...
I always pre-encrypted anything that was being
stored "in the cloud". Never spent a single
millisecond as plain text. Apparently yer govt
and vital services can't be bothered ......
Apologize for excess groups for Linux people,
but the same warnings apply.
short term most probable...
Chasseur
deniability reasons. Many of the proxies may not
even know of the state connections, indeed the
thrill of crime likely boosts their performance.
What we see today is mostly just 'probing', experiments,
looking for weaknesses, victims, new methods. This can do
a lot of damage, but should things deteriorate to more
real cyberwar the damages would be a thousand times worse.
1st-world is 1st-world because everything is efficient,
smoothly integrated at every scale. Alas that sort of
of interdependency is fairly easy to sabotage. Going
after just the banking systems would do it, or the
energy or communications infrastructure. One vital
brick crumbles and the whole empire tumbles down.
And forget "we could fix it soon enough" ... some of
these systems hold up SO much that there'd be nothing
left worth fixing in a matter of weeks. The fuel
runs out, the food runs out, the lights stay off,
it goes Mad Max real quick.
Ironically, 3rd/4th would would barely notice anything
had happened. Afghan goatherds might notice fewer
people coming around to annoy them.
THAT the little hacks COULD get so deeply inside our
supposedly "safe" systems just (again) demonstrates
the level of vulnerability which exists.
I doubt we will ever hear much about the actual methods
and tactics involved - top secret stuff no doubt.
And to agravate matters, a new dragon has or will soon enter the
cyberspace, namely artificial intelligence. Up until more or less now,
hacking has been personel intensive, probably in the thousands, wether
they are tethered to hostile govs or not. AI will in all likelyhood
change all of that. AI acts and learns. It will become more and more
efficient and quite forseeably, much less personel dependent.
Furthermore, it will be relentless, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Just imagine a coordinated simultaneous AI controlled cyberspace attack
on utilities (water, gas, electricity, etc.) transport (our computerized
private and public vehicles), data (finance, medical, gov and private
administration, military, etc.). It is predictable that such an attack
would be more damaging than a powerful EMP event, not to mention almost
ridiculously inexpensive.
In my view, it is not a question of IF but a question of WHEN.
Considering the disruptive potential of such an AI attack, I am pretty
sure that the likes of Vlad, Xi, Kim and their groupies are already on
it. Caveat emptor.
Chasseur
Patriotic fears and to encourage enlistments/war profiteering? Have you
noted how many military commanding officers have been canned and yet
reassigned? We may have to add our name to the list of our enemies.
We have several good examples right in this NG!