Russian state hackers, perhaps more than those of any other nation, tend to show off. The notorious Sandworm unit within Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, for instance, has triggered unprecedented blackouts and released destructive, self-replicating code. The FSB’s ingenious Turla group has hijacked satellite internet connections to steal victims’ dataContinue Reading
Yes. We’ve been here before. A second war of the architectures. In Hackers, a group of RISC- obsessed teens must stop a goateed villain from capsizing a fleet of oil tankers with a computer virus. Pictured here, from left: Lord Nikon, Dade, Kate, and Cereal Killer. Photograph: Everett Collection It’sContinue Reading
“The contractors and companies will hack more or less speculatively, motivated by profit to cast a wide net,” the DOJ official says. China, the official says, “is fostering reckless and indiscriminate targeting of vulnerable computers worldwide, even if it doesn’t task or obtain the fruits of those hacks. This leadsContinue Reading
