which would be bad for the world if people in the competing nations didn’t have internet access
these people would find out that there is such thing as fm radio. and that lot of their phones is capable of receiving it.
Comment on Mysterious cyberattack took down more than 600,000 routers in the U.S.
Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
So the attack happened in October 2023 but it was only revealed to the public now? Or is it that it was public back then but people didn’t pay attention?
Also the part where they say it has only ever happened as a precursor to a military invasion sort makes me think that this attack was some nation state practicing or signalling what they would do if they were in active cyber warfare which would be bad for the world if people in the competing nations didn’t have internet access, even if it was only for a day or two.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I was more thinking about all the services that rely on internet access to function. Like most economic systems would basically crash or grind to a halt.
There are a lot of products that don’t really need to be connected to the internet to do their job but are being connected anyways and would get bricked if access to the internet didn’t work. For example internet connected security cameras that don’t have cables connecting to where the data is being stored would be shot as well.
I mean the extent of the damage is really dependent on how the malware was spread which we don’t know yet so still mostly speculation on how damaging it could be.
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Security cameras, or other security devices, including ATMs, or some alarm systems, sound compatible with attacking a single ASN: if the attacker knew the IP pool assigned to their target, and the possible modem/router model, targeting the ASN would guarantee taking down their actual target… plus some 600,000 “collateral damage” as a smoke screen.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
we are talking about cheap home dsl routers here. i doubt that these would be responsible for collapse of the economy.
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 months ago
offline porn
Mobile data plans exist… just saying 😁
PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It’s the end point modem+router. It’s like saying removing the landline phone from people’s house without destroy the exchange boxes would cripple communication. It’s not cause they are easily replaced.
protist@mander.xyz 5 months ago
In the actual report linked in this article it says they were aware of the attack as it was happening and that they don’t believe it was a state actor
Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
So the company was aware but I was wondering on whether it was public knowledge released today or it was released back then but no one paid attention.
Also the report says that they don’t believe it is a nation state actor because it doesn’t match with any known malicious clusters but it’s likely that countries have multiple unknown clusters they can test with if necessary.