28 March, 2018

Russia's Cyberwar on Ukraine Is a Blueprint For What's to Come | WIRED

Russia's Cyberwar on Ukraine Is a Blueprint For What's to Come | WIRED: "Now, in Ukraine, the quintessential cyberwar scenario has come to life. Twice. On separate occasions, invisible saboteurs have turned off the electricity to hundreds of thousands of people. Each blackout lasted a matter of hours, only as long as it took for scrambling engineers to manually switch the power on again. But as proofs of concept, the attacks set a new precedent: In Russia’s shadow, the decades-old nightmare of hackers stopping the gears of modern society has become a reality.

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