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 […]
Cyber in the raw
Russia’s opening cyber salvo was clearly tied to their war planning. They seem to have used wipers to go after gov, mil and comms systems to degrade Ukraine’s defense capacity. And the attack on KA-SAT was related to Ukrainian military capacity as well. These sorts of attacks are very much in line with the traditional […]
Not all exploits are “grey in the dark”
Capabilities are not interchangeable, nor are they all equal. This seems obvious, and yet not everyone agrees (apparently). In this article about the six 0day exploits patched on June 7 2021, we have the following line: Kevin Breen, director of cyber threat research at Immersive Labs, said elevation of privilege flaws are just as valuable […]