Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
Now this is interesting:
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet.
The company’s work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic spy agency; the operational and intelligence divisions of the armed forces, known as the GOU and GRU; and the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence organisation.
Lots more at the link.
The documents are in Russian, so it will be a while before we get translations.
EDITED TO ADD (4/1): More information.
Clive Robinson • March 30, 2023 7:20 PM
@ Bruce, ALL,
Re : Big Business + Government.
Remember the shock when the NSA room in an AT&T major node was made public?
The noise about RIM / BlackBerrygetting under the covers with Packistan and Saudi Arabia?
How about Google and others snuggling up to the Chinese?
The list goes on and on… They talk about “Battle Fatigue”, “Shell Shock” and all sorts of other names when such atrocities nolonger even get a “shoulder shrug”…
It is what “business does” it’s always profit / growth / share holder value before morals, ethics, or quite often legality…
After all how many corps have had their collars felt over bribery and corruption with foreign governments?
Thus this “tie-up” is shall we say “expected” rather than “unexpected”.
I’m sure many will be shocked by some of what comes out but I can remember back to the early 1990’s where Russian Business was done with bombs, bullets and killer dogs, and those from the West who had invested and not taken appropriate precautions if they were lucky faced hundredsd year jail sentances for crimes they not their Russian partners had committed… With all the forged paperwork, bribed judges, frightened off or misteriously dead defence witnesses, the only sensible thing was to get the heck out of dodge with if you were lucky your shirt still on your back…
As we now know a lot of that alleged criminal activity and “wet work” was actually carried out by Russian Security Forces for certain Russian persons that are now only just getting put on international lists and having their cruise ships etc confiscated…
Let’s just say the closer you are the harder it is to say NO to such “inducements”. As someone pointed out “family tickets for flying lessons” especially out of hospital upper floors tend to only have one very short lesson, that often does not get to “terminal velocity” not that that effects the outcome.