WAmericans warn of attack, world must sit up and watch. After all, they could be exactly as seen in the Ukraine invasion. U.S. politicians have also been warning of Russian cyber-attacks in the West. However, since it recently came out of the President’s mouth, it sounded beyond doubt Joe Biden. Biden said hacker attacks loyal to the Kremlin were “very important” and “immediate.” He called on companies to take up arms “immediately” against it.
If so how Hacker Whoever shut down Western networks in the Russian service, no one knows, but they know they can cause the greatest damage. They have repeatedly shown what they are made of, and have been spying on officials and ministries in the United States for months.
Some researchers believe that Kremlin hackers are particularly good at shutting down power plants or industrial plants. This is no small matter. You need to infiltrate the computer network and go to the control settings. They run programs that can only be understood by acquaintances and cannot be controlled remotely, but only if you flip a lever or turn the key at the same time. Such systems can only harass hackers playing in the first league. “Russia is focusing on this, and it should worry about us,” said Luke McNamara, a researcher at FAS’s US firm Mandiant. Compared to China, North Korea and Iran, McNamara considers the Russians to be at the forefront of such attacks.
The hacker accepted the deaths
Last week, the U.S. Justice Department released an indictment against a Russian hacker, describing how he and others were able to sabotage a foreign refinery. Evgeny Gladkiv worked at a research institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Many years ago, he hacked into the computers of an industrial plant in Saudi Arabia.
Gladkiv was particularly interested in a plan to ensure safety, such as shutting down fuel if anything went wrong. Tried to disrupt it. Gladkikh and his people wanted to push the refinery into chaos. They accepted that toxic gases would be emitted, explosions would occur, and people would die. If their only concern was to close the plant, they could have made it easier. They should delete all data on computers that are already accessible.
But Gladkikh waited until he handled the security plan. It detected a malfunction and closed the refinery. After a while he tried again. The refinery was closed again. This is a start for Gladkikh, a test. His real goals were United States. In the years that followed, he and his people read public articles written by Americans about how safe refineries were. Read job advertisements to see if there are any facilities using the same security plan as in Saudi Arabia. In fact, some did. Cladkick tried several times to get into the systems, but he could not. One must assume that he was discovered in the process, because the charge ends here.
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