• IΛM0DΛY@lemmy.mlOP
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      There isn’t always a claim to their attacks, but the evidence frames them very easily… Most always cover the same modus operandi, so much so that I consider it their signature.

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    Five Eyes Nations can eat a dick for all I care. They’ll warn of their adversaries actions but insist that they operate under an absurd amount of secrecy with enormous budgets.

    5/9/14 eyes is some 1984 bullshit.

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      Yes, no one is truly holy, we know that. Mass surveillance is undertaken by all states, some in less invasive ways and some in outright abuse. But you also have to consider states that rely on cybercrime to attack an adversary and those that defend their citizens/customers only with ito… That’s the difference in a nutshell.

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      The university I work for had a flood of phishing right after Russia started attacking Ukraine. It’s hard to know who was behind the attacks, but our best guess was criminals harbored and directed by the Russian state. We are a university, we’re not out to hurt anyone. This is just yet more innocent civilians getting hurt because Russia got angry that Ukraine turned out to be a tougher pill to swallow than it thought.

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        Yes, according to my sources, a phishing campaign has been going on since the beginning of the invasion. The problem that knowing exactly who is behind it is a bit difficult, it starts from almost all over the world, and pointing the finger at someone is just unethical: until proven otherwise it can also be the Ukrainians themselves or even criminal groups that are exploiting the situation, not necessarily the Russians.

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          I’m not sure that I should say (though it’s not exactly a secret if you do some work).

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            People started upvoting me and downvoting him/her. But my question was legit. I wasn’t trying falsify his arguments. I was just curious because I have heard of similar things near me.

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        Nation states and criminal organizations have been doing that for years it’s not a new thing that just started happening.

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          In fact the method of phishing if exploited really properly for a state can be a really powerful weapon, more for the fact that it can involve so many people and less that it can cause damage to be legally actionable.