For all the disappointment over the lack of spectacular cyber warfare in Ukraine, there’s very little interest in the “textbook cyberwar” scenarios unfolding around Iran. Albania has just severed diplomatic ties with Iran over the cyber attacks of July 15th. The Prime Minister announced this in a dramatic fashion with strong language. Iran is embroiled […]
Foghorn: Signals Through the Fog of War
Some Lessons Learned, So Far Ukraine Survives and Thrives Russia’s first wave of destructive cyber effects operations against Ukraine were effective. They targeted and disabled Ukrainian air defense systems, government ministries, and the national command and control infrastructure built over VIASAT. These successful operations were accomplished even though Russia’s military intelligence, the GRU, had very […]
Putin’s cyber blind spot
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 […]