Re:An update on the threat landscape
by bee_rider on Monday March 07, 2022 @11:10PM
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Nah, most of the stories are about ransomware type schemes from Russian criminal gangs. I'm sure both of our intelligence agencies get up to no good, and US news sources are less likely to cover US intelligence agencies, but they have no real reason to cover for petty hacking criminals.
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There are obvious incentives to present Russia as a lawless criminal wasteland and the US as a good global citizen.
I don't think they're obvious, and this comment strikes me as baseless innuendo.
What precisely are the incentives for multinational corporations to censor news about American cyber malfeasance, especially given how acute and prolonged a regulatory headache unchecked American surveillance created for them in Europe?
Re:An update on the threat landscape
by perryizgr8 on Monday March 07, 2022 @11:34PM
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> most of the stories are about ransomware type schemes
And where are these news stories coming from?
are you living under a rock? Do you remember the recent oil pipeline and meat packing facilities that got ransomwared? Ton's of government sites and corporations get hacked. It's way more than what's publicly available too. Most of the time entities just pay up and keep it secret. Lots of the attacks come from russia. They pump out a shit load of malware.