Ukraine Hacks ATMs Across Russia in Ongoing Cyberattack(kyivpost.com) |
Ukraine Hacks ATMs Across Russia in Ongoing Cyberattack(kyivpost.com) |
Exactly what you are supposed to do to stop it, I am not sure. But just complete acceptance or even enthusiasm for warfare is not a safe or necessarily sane response.
I also think that part of this is that people latch on to simplified one-sided fairy tale explanations of conflicts.
To be fair the whole Russia-Ukrain conflict boils down to "Russia taking shit that's not theirs". Pretty easy to take sides there.
It’s been sort of reassuring to see how absolutely minimal of an effect Russian hackers have had on Ukraine these past years
e.g. things like https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ukraine-frostygoop-malwar...
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Ukraine_power_grid_hack
It could certainly be worse. But the thing is, Russia has so many options for inflicting physical damage that the cyberattacks are relatively less important.
I wouldn’t have been totally surprised if Russian cyber attacks were genuinely capable of disabling large parts of critical networks. But I’m glad to see they’re not.