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Re:Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland ... by notveryrational on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:21PM (#17602463)
Russia's cyber military is James Bond level cool. There are speculations (nobody can prove it) that they set up their own TOR using onion-like proxies, with a custom crypto protocol, over Shodan-discovered endpoints, through a clever use of tunneling through UPNP systems on the internet, with incredible OPSEC - even burning the whole infrastructure several years after it was discovered.

Some day we'll get uncensored versions of these Ops disclosed by the various governments that run them and get to read about the research facilities and intense personalities that run them.

Re:Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland ... by forapurpose on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:26PM (#17605457)
Is this sarcastic? A dream? An outline of a short story? Is there any basis?

> intense personalities

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Re:Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland ... by notveryrational on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:03PM (#17606647)
Sorry for the opaque comment. Was gushing over the cool exploits of the "Inception Group" or "RedOctober APT" - believed but not proven to be Russian espionage.

https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/inception...

https://securelist.com/red-october-diplomatic-cyber-attacks-...

James Bond level epic awesomeness and sophistication. Keep reading if you want to nerd out.

Re:Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland ... by forapurpose on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:11PM (#17610350)
I'm not sure HN is the right forum for that. Enjoy, uh, gushing.
Re:Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland ... by notveryrational on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @08:58PM (#17614317)
HN is for technical conversation, which includes being impressed and commenting on the state of the art.

Seriously encourage reading about capabilities, especially the operations security maturity. The level of research and development is truly impressive.

Re:Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland ... by forapurpose on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @09:29PM (#17614436)
I think if you look around, you won't see anything like it. You don't need to repeat the 'gushing'; I read the prior two comments. But anyway, have fun.