Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain

Fascinating term:  Supply Chain, used in this context

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Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain

By The New York Times, July 13, 2023

New technologies give Russias security services a granular view of the internet. 

President Vladimir V. Putin is leaning more on technology to wield political power as Russia faces military setbacks in Ukraine, bruising economic sanctions, and leadership challenges.

Credit: Mark Harris; Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Agence France-Presse—Getty Images

Russia has built a network of technology contractors to supply it with surveillance equipment in order to spy on and quash internal dissent.

Documents from Russian surveillance providers acquired by The New York Times indicate the products can monitor certain kinds of activity on encrypted applications like WhatsApp and Signal, track the whereabouts of phones, de-anonymize social media users, and breach people's accounts.

The documents say simple-to-use software that interfaces into telecommunications infrastructure offers multiple surveillance applications like collecting passwords inputted on unencrypted websites.

These tools enhance propaganda campaigns, Internet censorship, and other Russian programs to control public opinion and suppress dissent. They form the seeds of a commercially available toolkit that autocrats can use to implement mass online surveillance.

From The New York Times

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Russian Cyberwarfare Docs Leaked

 As usual interesting piece in Schneier.   Including useful commentary. We need to think of these ideas as a powerful form of warfare

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.  ... 

How Wide is Computing Divided?

 Short review extract:

Computing Divided: How Wide the Chasm?     By Andrew A. Chien

Communications of the ACM, January 2023, Vol. 66 No. 1, Page 5    10.1145/3572994

Andrew A. Chien, past Editor-in-Chief of CACM

In January 2019, I described the computing community on the cusp of a new era of growing division.2 The prognostication proved accurate. Four years have seen accelerating division and growing real fissures, driven by international geopolitics, dramatic spy cases—incarceration and increasing technology and trade restrictions. Examples include:

China's crackdown on tech and covert suppression of opinion abroad,1,4 and

China's threatened invasion of Taiwan and bullying of Lithuania.6

If you are not concerned yet, in February 2022 we saw an outbreak of a regional conflict akin to that which caused World War I;7 Russia invaded Ukraine with no justification. The invasion created overt alignment of warring alliances: China in a no-limits partnership with Russia, Iran, Belarus, and Syria, and the U.S., Europe, and the West joining to support Ukraine. China, the economic leader of Asia and major regional military power, spread a chill across Asia by siding with an imperialist "might makes right" alliance. All nations are now rethinking defense, investment, trade, and technology policies toward China.

The world is at an inflection point. These are indeed times for caution and careful reflection on where are we going. There are three major possibilities:

Catastrophe! (Future #1). Open hostility, fully separate trade (and travel and technology) partitions. Unthinkable? Recall this was the world order from 1950–1980 (Soviet Block—USSR and Eastern Europe, the Western Alliance—U.S and Europe, and China), disjointed ecosystems with little trade or travel. This isolation was self-imposed by both the Soviet Block and China, out of weakness to maintain control over their citizenry. Such division would be a terrible outcome. Tragic individually for billions of citizens of the closed systems, a painful quandary for those with ties spanning, and it would impoverish all culturally.

It is undeniable that Russia has gone into such isolation in just 12 months (trade and travel have stopped). China's no-limits alliance, actions against its tech companies, and overt international belligerence, suggest little commitment to a rules-based international order. Is China ready to undertake isolation? Unthinkable? Such isolation might make China's rulers feel more secure.  ... '  (more below at link)  

Russia Is Jamming More GPS Satellite Signals

Use of Jamming versus Sat Signals, GPS

Russia Is Jamming More GPS Satellite Signals Around Moscow

By New Scientist, December 27, 2022

Map of GPS Interference near Moscow for 26 December 2022.

Credit: GPSJam

Russia has accelerated its jamming of global positioning system (GPS) satellites around Moscow, apparently to deter long-range strikes by Ukrainian drones, according to the GPSJam monitoring website.

The ramp-up followed drone strikes on two Russian airbases earlier this month, says Dana Goward at the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, Alexandria, VA. Russia has jammed satellite navigation following drone strikes before, and it has various military mobile jamming systems that broadcast radio noise to disrupt weak signals. Operators directly pilot short-range drones, making GPS use unnecessary. However, long-range strikes generally need GPS to navigate, so jamming would thwart remotely orchestrated strikes.

Jamming won’t protect against all drones, however. Shahad-136 drones, for example, which Russia has used against Ukraine, are equipped with navigation units that allow them to pass through areas of jamming.

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NSA cyber chief says Ukraine war is compelling more intelligence sharing with industry

 Cybersecurity as it evolves under global conditions. 

NSA cyber chief says Ukraine war is compelling more intelligence sharing with industry

NSA Cybersecurity Directorate Director Rob Joyce spoke Wednesday at the Trellix Cybersecurity Summit. (Pixelme Studios).

Written by AJ Vicens  OCT 19, 2022 | CYBERSCOOP

Rapidly and proactively sharing intelligence on cyberthreats with industry and critical infrastructure providers “can really make a big and decisive difference,” Rob Joyce, director of the NSA Cybersecurity Directorate, said Wednesday.

It’s one of the key lessons his agency “took away personally” from the ongoing war in Ukraine, Joyce said at the Trellix Cybersecurity Summit in Washington.

“Over time, I’ve changed my view about what it is to protect sources and methods,” Joyce said, noting that in his 30-plus years at NSA “it’s in our DNA” to protect sources and methods to ensure the ability to “know secrets into the future.”

But “what we know is often not sensitive, it is how we know it,” Joyce said. “We can make available the insights about what we know without putting at risk how we know it. That’s really an inflection point that lets us get to more prolific, more extensive and more closely sharing for operational outcomes.”

Joyce added that “it doesn’t do anybody any good if we know a thing and don’t do something. Doing is really the focus in the cybersecurity area. And if you’ve got secrets and understanding and you don’t operationalize those, they don’t count.”

Joyce pointed to what he called the “maturation” of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center as the venue for “working with industry to operationalize those ideas.” Information is shared with technology providers, major infrastructure providers and others, “who can then take action at scale.”

A recent example of such information sharing came earlier this month when the NSA, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a joint advisory warning of state-aligned hackers using Impacket, an open-source toolkit to aid in network compromise, and a custom data exfiltration tool known as CovalentStealer against an unnamed defense industrial base entity.

More broadly, the U.S. government has been more aggressive about sharing intelligence about Russian plans, both in the days before the Feb. 24 invasion and since, as part of an effort to disrupt Russian attacks on Ukraine.

“When we set up that protection, protecting us protects you,” he said.  .... ' 

Meta Designated as Extremest

 In BBC, already seen widely in the news.

Russia confirms Meta's designation as extremist

The Russian authorities have added Meta - which owns Facebook and Instagram - to a list of terrorist and extremist organisations, the country's Interfax agency reports.

The two platforms were banned in Russia in March for "Russophobia".

It followed Meta's announcement it would permit posts such as "death to Russian invaders" but not credible threats against civilians

Meta appealed against the ban but it was upheld by a Moscow court in June.

The ban did not apply to WhatsApp, which Meta also owns. ... ' 

AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond

Impressive depth of applications.  Good examples to consider for the future. 

AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond

By Karen Emslie

Commissioned by CACM Staff, September 15, 2022

The United Nations (U.N.) reported in May there were around 7.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, people who have been forced to leave their homes but who remain in the country. Meanwhile, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency) recorded over 5.9 million Ukrainian refugees who have fled their country to locations across Europe.

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is part of a global situation in which over 89 million people worldwide were found to be "forcibly displaced" due to persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations at the end of 2021, according to UNHCR.

Displaced peoples and refugees face a multitude of difficulties, from poor living conditions and loss of identity documents to longer-term resettlement, discrimination, and employability issues. Researchers and technology companies have been working with relief organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and governments to develop solutions, some of which are based upon artificial intelligence (AI), to support IDPs and refugees worldwide.

Ukraine: Responding to the immediate crisis

Palo Alto, CA-based Orbital Insight is using AI and geospatial data to monitor the movements of displaced peoples and refugees in Ukraine. The observations support agencies involved in the relief effort— including the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAid)—to deploy aid and emergency resources where and when they are needed.

Orbital Insight operates a cloud-based platform that uses data including vehicle,  foot-traffic, and land-use observations to provide insights on global economic, societal, and environmental trends. Its clients typically come from sectors like defense and intelligence, energy, and financial services.

The platform's raw data is obtained from multiple sources. It includes high-resolution electro-optical (EO) satellite imagery (which includes information from beyond the visible spectrum) supplied by satellite manufacturer and operator Satellogic, as well as data from connected vehicle sensors and anonymized geolocation sensors on mobile devices. Customized algorithms are used to analyze the data and perform specific tasks, like computer vision-based classification and object detection.

When war broke out in Ukraine, Orbital Insight CEO Kevin O'Brien and his team adapted the platform's capabilities to the conflict. Foot-traffic algorithms, for example, can track the volume, direction, and speed of displaced peoples' movements. The company's analysis showed how foot traffic dropped off dramatically in eastern Ukraine as people fled intense fighting in the region—  and how it then grew in cities in the west of the country as displaced peoples moved to those safer areas.

Such insights support humanitarian organizations' decision-making, such as whether emergency shelters and food should be redeployed to areas that people are moving towards. "Some of the first use-cases were to help manage relief resources both in Ukraine and at border locations," explained O'Brien. "The next was safe exit, safe passage: how do you get people further away from the fighting?"

Satellite imagery gives an aerial view of the situation at borders as refugees cross into neighboring countries like Poland and Moldova. Computer vision provides further insights by automatically counting the number of vehicles at border crossings. The results can be downloaded as geoJSON files, loaded onto a Geographic Information System (GIS), and visualized on maps for further analysis by relief organizations.

Alongside contracts with governmental agencies, Orbital Insight donates analytics via the Data Partnership, a collaborative platform that allows tech companies to share data with international development organizations for research and humanitarian purposes. The company also works directly with partners in Ukraine, including with Reface, a Kyiv-based AI startup that developed a popular face-swapping app and content creation platform. Reface has redirected its focus towards the conflict via numerous initiatives, including developing algorithms to identify Russian troops in satellite imagery and using data to fight disinformation.  ...   (more detail) 

Karen Emslie is a location-independent freelance journalist and essayist. 

Russian official says civilian satellites may be military target

Obvious, chilling .... The clear future of warfare

Russian official says civilian satellites may be “legitimate” military target

Russia wasn't happy about Starlink providing broadband in Ukraine after invasion.

JON BRODKIN - 9/16/2022   ArsTechnica

A Russian diplomat said civilian satellites could be legitimate military targets in a statement that seems to refer to Starlink providing broadband access in Ukraine. Civilian satellites "may become a legitimate target for retaliation," the Russian official said in a statement to the United Nations' open-ended working group on reducing space threats.

The quote is from an unofficial English translation of the statement on September 12 by Konstantin Vorontsov, head of the Russian delegation to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) working group. The translation is provided with other countries' statements from the session on the UNODA's meeting website.... '

European Space Agency Seeks Possibility of SpaceX Launching

 In Reuters:

Exclusive: Europe eyes Musk's SpaceX to bridge launch gap left by Russia tensions

By Tim Hepher and Joey Roulette

PARIS, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions with Elon Musk's SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of its launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access to Russia's Soyuz rockets.

The private American competitor to Europe's Arianespace has emerged as a key contender to plug a temporary gap alongside Japan and India, but final decisions depend on the still unresolved timetable for Europe's delayed Ariane 6 rocket.   ... '

IBM Begins Laying Off Entire Russian Workforce

 Implications for IBM and Ukraine?

IBM Begins Laying Off Entire Russian Workforce   By Josh Norem  in Extremetech

The ongoing war in Ukraine has caused hundreds of companies to announce they were suspending operations in Russia. Some companies have even decided to pull out completely. Such is the case with IBM, which announced this week it has begun the process of laying off all of its Russian employees. The layoffs come in the wake of the company’s March 7th announcement that it was suspending operations there. As of press time, the company’s Russian website was already offline.  .... ' 

Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data

More examples of hacking based warfare.

Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data

By The New York Times, May 20, 2022

The emails landed on March 23 in the inboxes of scientists and engineers at several of Russia's military research and development institutes, purportedly sent by Russia's Ministry of Health. They carried a subject line that offered seemingly tantalizing information about a "list of persons under U.S. sanctions for invading Ukraine."

But the emails were actually sent by state-sponsored hackers in China seeking to entice their Russian targets to download and open a document with malware, according to a new report to be released Thursday by the Israeli-American cybersecurity firm Check Point.

The report provides new evidence of Chinese efforts to spy on Russia, pointing to the complexity of the relations between two countries that have drawn closer in solidarity against the United States. It also underscores the sprawling, and increasingly sophisticated, tactics China's cyberspies have used to collect information on an ever-expanding array of targets, including countries it considers friends, like Russia.   ;

The emails landed on March 23 in the inboxes of scientists and engineers at several of Russia's military research and development institutes, purportedly sent by Russia's Ministry of Health. They carried a subject line that offered seemingly tantalizing information about a "list of persons under U.S. sanctions for invading Ukraine."

But the emails were actually sent by state-sponsored hackers in China seeking to entice their Russian targets to download and open a document with malware, according to a new report to be released Thursday by the Israeli-American cybersecurity firm Check Point. ... '

The report provides new evidence of Chinese efforts to spy on Russia, pointing to the complexity of the relations between two countries that have drawn closer in solidarity against the United States. It also underscores the sprawling, and increasingly sophisticated, tactics China's cyberspies have used to collect information on an ever-expanding array of targets, including countries it considers friends, like Russia ...'

In the NYTimes.  

Net-zero Transition in the Wake of the War in Ukraine

 Ultimate meaning in how much time and integrated level of risks?

The net-zero transition in the wake of the war in Ukraine: A detour, a derailment, or a different path?

May 19, 2022 | Article  McKinsey   By Hamid Samandari, Dickon Pinner, Harry Bowcott, and Olivia White

The Russian invasion of Ukraine1 has ushered in a humanitarian crisis of a scale not seen on European soil since the Second World War, a level of geopolitical tension not experienced since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and a set of rapidly evolving political, economic, and societal responses and counterresponses whose ramifications can scarcely be estimated at this point. Nor are there signs of an imminent resolution on the horizon.

As Russia is one of the world’s largest producers of oil, gas, and commodities, one can naturally expect that the massive and universal effort required to address the world’s looming climate crisis would also be swept up in the maelstrom. This raises the question of whether the war and its aftermath will prove to be a limited detour from the previous path of net-zero transition, or a true fork in the road and a far more consequential redirection.

It seems clear at this point the war will complicate the transition’s path in the short term. In the longer term, however, the logic of energy security and economics could converge to kick net-zero transition efforts into higher gear. Bold moves would be needed at unprecedented speed to boost energy-efficiency measures and adopt renewable-energy alternatives to fossil fuels. If adopted, such actions could drive net-zero technologies down their respective cost curves and build a pathway to faster decarbonization in other regions.

Such outcomes would not be surprising in light of history; conflict has often accelerated energy transitions. The 19th century’s naval wars accelerated a shift from wind- to coal-powered vessels. World War I brought about a shift from coal to oil. World War II introduced nuclear energy as a major power source. In each of these cases, wartime innovations flowed directly to the civilian economy and ushered in a new era.2 The war in Ukraine is different in that it is not prompting the energy innovation itself but making the need for it clearer. Still, the potential impact could be equally transformative.  ... ' 

Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale

 FROM ACM NEWS

Many cybercriminals and ransomware groups have links to Russia and don't target the nation. Now, it's being opened up.

in Wired  via ACM News | April 28, 2022 

The orders are issued like clockwork. Every day, often at around 5 am local time, the Telegram channel housing Ukraine's unprecedented "IT Army" of hackers buzzes with a new list of targets. The volunteer group has been knocking Russian websites offline using wave after wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which flood websites with traffic requests and make them inaccessible, since the war started.

Russian online payment services, government departments, aviation companies, and food delivery firms have all been targeted by the IT Army as it aims to disrupt everyday life in Russia. "Russians have noticed regular hitches in the work of TV streaming services today," the government-backed operators of the Telegram channel posted following one claimed operation in mid-April.

The IT Army's actions were just the start. Since Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, the country has faced an unprecedented barrage of hacking activity. Hacktivists, Ukrainian forces, and outsiders from all around the world who are taking part in the IT Army have targeted Russia and its business. DDoS attacks make up the bulk of the action, but researchers have spotted ransomware that's designed to target Russia and have been hunting for bugs in Russian systems, which could lead to more sophisticated attacks.

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UK Blames Russia For Satellite Hack

In the BBC, more examples of tech warfare and implications.

UK blames Russia for satellite internet hack at start of war   By Chris Vallance,  BBCTechnology Reporter

Russia was behind a cyber-attack targeting American commercial satellite internet company Viasat, UK and US intelligence suggests. The attack began about an hour before Russia invaded Ukraine, on 24 February.

It caused outages for several thousand Ukrainian customers - and affected windfarms and internet users in Central Europe. Officials have long believed Russia was to blame but lacked the evidence to say so publicly. Viasat provides high-speed satellite broadband to commercial and military customers.

The company has previously said "tens of thousands of terminals" were damaged beyond repair, in the cyber-attack, though its core network infrastructure and the satellite itself remained unscathed.  .... ' 

Russia will Quit ISS Space Station over Sanctions

Long of implications, here, loss of technical collaboration, other work threatened? 

Russia Will Quit International Space Station Over Sanctions  Via Bloomberg

Russia space agency head says partners to get 12 months notice

Agency had earlier this month threated to end ISS missions  .....'

NOKIA Leaving Russian Market

Late to this.  We will at least have some measures about how global sanctions work and further change global business.

Ukraine War Update: Nokia to fully exit the Russian market  via SeekingAlpha

Apr. 12, 2022 3:55 PM ETNOK   By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor305 Comments

Here are the latest headlines in the Russia-Ukraine crisis:

Nokia to completely exit the Russian market

Finnish telecom giant Nokia (NOK) announced plans Tuesday to completely exit the Russian market. NOK, which previously took such steps as suspending deliveries and moving R&D operations out of Russia, said a complete cessation of business there shouldn't impact the firm's previously announced 2022 outlook.

Putin says talks are at a 'dead end'

Vladimir Putin said peace talks with Ukraine are "at a dead end" and that Russia's military operation is going according to plan, Bloomberg reported. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said talks continue and Russia is trying to put pressure on peace negotiations.

Ukraine war will curb trade, growth - WTO

In the latest grim economic outlook to emerge, the Geneva-based trade body pointed to multiple uncertainties in its forecast over the next two years because Russian and Ukrainian exports of items like food, oil and fertilizers are under threat from the war.

Chemical weapons?

As Russia prepares for a significant new offensive in eastern Ukraine, allegations have surfaced that Ukrainians in the besieged city of Mariupol came under a Russian chemical weapons attack on Monday. The Azov battalion claimed a Russian drone dropped a "poisonous substance of unknown origin" on troops and civilians, while Ukrainian lawmaker Ivanna Klympush said people were suffering from respiratory failure and neurological problems. No independent evidence of the attack has yet emerged, though Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. will "continue to monitor the situation closely." .... ' 

US and allies warn of Russian hacking threat to critical infrastructure

Infratructure counts, keep it safe

US and allies warn of Russian hacking threat to critical infrastructure   By Sergiu Gatlan

Today, Five Eyes cybersecurity authorities warned critical infrastructure network defenders of an increased risk that Russia-backed hacking groups could target organizations within and outside Ukraine's borders.

The warning comes from cybersecurity agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom in a joint cybersecurity advisory with info on Russian state-backed hacking operations and Russian-aligned cybercrime groups.

"Critical infrastructure organizations should maintain a heightened state of alert against Russian cyber threats. Stay vigilant and follow the mitigations from our joint advisory to harden your IT and OT networks now," the NSA warned today.

Recommended actions to protect networks against attacks

The Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies recommends measures critical infrastructure orgs should take to harden their defenses and protect their information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) networks against Russian state-sponsored and criminal cyber threats, including ransomware, destructive malware, DDoS attacks, and cyber espionage.

Defenders are advised to immediately prioritize patching actively exploited vulnerabilities, enforce multifactor authentication, secure and monitor remote desktop protocol (RDP), and provide end-user awareness and training.

Today's joint advisory builds upon a similar one issued in January https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-govt-warns-of-russian-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure/ by the FBI, CISA, and NSA, exposing Russian hacking groups (including APT29, APT28, and the Sandworm Team) who have targeted organizations from US critical infrastructure sectors.

At the time, the US agencies urged critical infrastructure orgs to prepare for attacks orchestrated by Russian-backed hacking groups and advised US critical infrastructure defenders to focus on detecting malicious activity by enforcing robust log collection/retention to detect potential Russian-linked APT activity. .... ' 

Russia Said to be Jamming GPS Signals

More about uses of digital at war.

Russia is jamming GPS satellite signals in Ukraine, US Space Force says   By Elizabeth Howell published,   about 21 hours ago

'Ukraine may not be able to use GPS,' a Space Force official told

Another piece of space infrastructure for Ukraine is under attack, according to an NBC report.

Jammers from Russian forces besieging the country are targeting global positioning system (GPS) satellites that are used for navigation, mapping and other purposes, the report said, quoting the U.S. Space Force.  "Ukraine may not be able to use GPS because there are jammers around that prevent them from receiving any usable signal," Gen. David Thompson, the Space Force's vice chief of space operations, told NBC Nightly News Monday (April 11). .... 

"Certainly the Russians understand the value and importance of GPS and try to prevent others from using it," Thompson added. He noted that Russia has not directly attacked any satellites in orbit, but the Space Force is keeping an eye out for such possibilities. .... '

Ericsson Suspends Russia Business

Colleague brought this to my attention.  More attention to the situation.

Ericsson suspends business in Russia, puts staff on paid leave

Ericsson is suspending its business in Russia indefinitely and has put employees on paid leave, six weeks after the Swedish telecom equipment maker started a review of the impact of Western sanctions on its operations.

The company said on Monday it would record a 900 million crown ($95 million) provision in the first quarter for impairment of assets and other exceptional costs related to the move.

Ericsson has about 600 employees in Russia, a spokesperson said.

Hundreds of Western companies have either withdrawn here or suspended operations in Russia since the country invaded Ukraine in February while Western governments have imposed sanctions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine on what he calls a “special military operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” Ukraine. Ukraine and the West say Putin launched an unprovoked war of aggression. .... '

Cyberwarfare

Cyberwarefare and need for vigilance, prep now and in the Future

Anonymous Claims it Hacked Russia's Central Bank   By Daily Mail (U.K.)  Reuters March 24, 2022

Earlier this week, Anonymous warned Western companies continuing to operate in Russia that they must pull out or risk facing cyberattacks in light of the invasion of Ukraine.

International hacking collective Anonymous claims to have exploited Russia's Central Bank - and is threatening to release 35,000 files which include 'secret agreements' in the next 48 hours.   The bank is responsible for protecting and ensuring the safety of the ruble, the Russian currency which has plummeted in value since the invasion of Ukraine began last month.

In a post on Twitter late last night by one of the group's accounts, Anonymous revealed its latest hack, though details were limited.

From Daily Mail (U.K.)

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