Posted on Jan 29, 2021
Why Russia May Have Stepped Up Its Hacking Game
702
10
4
6
6
0
Back in November, Kevin Mandia, CEO of the cybersecurity firm FireEye, opened his mailbox to find an anonymous postcard. It had a simple cartoon on the front. "Hey look, Russians," it read. "Putin did it."
He might not have given it a second thought were it not for one thing: His company had recently launched an internal security investigation after officials discovered someone had tried to register an unauthorized device into its network. That inquiry eventually led to the discovery of something even more worrisome: the breach of a Texas-based network monitoring company called SolarWinds.
U.S. officials now believe that hackers with Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, found a way to piggyback onto one of SolarWinds' regular software updates and slip undetected into its clients' networks. That means potentially thousands of companies and dozens of government departments and agencies may have been compromised.
President Biden was concerned enough about the attack that he brought it up in his first official call as president on Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. It is unclear how Putin responded, but Russia has denied involvement in the past.
He might not have given it a second thought were it not for one thing: His company had recently launched an internal security investigation after officials discovered someone had tried to register an unauthorized device into its network. That inquiry eventually led to the discovery of something even more worrisome: the breach of a Texas-based network monitoring company called SolarWinds.
U.S. officials now believe that hackers with Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, found a way to piggyback onto one of SolarWinds' regular software updates and slip undetected into its clients' networks. That means potentially thousands of companies and dozens of government departments and agencies may have been compromised.
President Biden was concerned enough about the attack that he brought it up in his first official call as president on Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. It is unclear how Putin responded, but Russia has denied involvement in the past.
Why Russia May Have Stepped Up Its Hacking Game
Posted from npr.org
Hacking
Russia
Intelligence
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 3
1
1
0
Sadly the DSA (dumb states of America) worships outsourcing so everything virtually is made overseas. When that happens you lose control. Hopefully the people you fear are feared by the place where you outsourced your business life to.
**IF NOT**
Then there is nothing to stop Ivan from visiting his buddy Chang and “hey - while I’m here on vacation, how about we tour that new yankee-imperialist-Devil-dog cpu factory you were telling me about?” Next thing you know, most things will get a free back door, courtesy of foreign made CPU’s.
Hacking is not nearly as difficult as people make it out to be. Security isn’t as secure as it’s made out to be either. So yeah - stupid citizens + old enemies is gonna equal loads of cyber shenanigans.
**IF NOT**
Then there is nothing to stop Ivan from visiting his buddy Chang and “hey - while I’m here on vacation, how about we tour that new yankee-imperialist-Devil-dog cpu factory you were telling me about?” Next thing you know, most things will get a free back door, courtesy of foreign made CPU’s.
Hacking is not nearly as difficult as people make it out to be. Security isn’t as secure as it’s made out to be either. So yeah - stupid citizens + old enemies is gonna equal loads of cyber shenanigans.
(1)
(0)
1
1
0
1
1
0
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google