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Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots by nurgasemetey on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:48AM (#37596838)
There was an article about this -https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick... . Basically, malicious programs will not target hosts that have Cyrillic or other languages of Russian aligned countries.
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Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots by enkid on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:01AM (#37597757)
There have been a ton of attacks originating from Russia against Ukraine and Estonia very publicly. Read Sandworm for a deep dive. Just because some hackers are lazy and use a Cyrillic keyboard as a lazy man's geofencing does not mean these countries are off limits.
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Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots by nurgasemetey on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:34AM (#37608274)
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