A common question about the lacklustre Russian cyberwar so far is, why hasn’t Putin unleashed the ransomware gangs? Why isn’t there a massive wave of ransomware across Europe and America? There are two related issues here that need to be addressed on Putin and ransomware: (1) why would he? (2) why hasn’t he? This post […]
Ukraine my heart, cyber just for show?
The multiple coordinated attacks on Ukrainian government cyber infrastructure is a very interesting development in the field of cyber warfare. This may be the first public example of multiple types of attacks, not directly linked via the same penetration, being used in coordination to attempt an effects based operation. The website defacements were used to […]
Premature Cyber Escalation
It’s ok, it happens to lots of states, don’t worry about it US CYBERCOM launched a powerful widespread cyber attack against Iranian missile command and control (C&C) assets. This attack caused a denial of service that is so severe Iran will need a long time to recover their former capabilities. It was the least effective, most […]