The fact that Russia, China, North Korea, etc… are never affected by cyberattacks
I don't know how true that is. I think that's more a blind spot in western reporting if anything. A municipal government in a corner of a Chinese providence or a Russian state getting ransomwared just doesn't rate as news to western media.
But it's noticeable how comically vulnerable the US businesses have proven to be, when so much of this software foundationally originates in the US to begin with. Like, US anti-virus has always been bad. But you'd think there would at least be some kind of profit motive behind curbing it.
A local government getting hacked is quite different from the national-level disasters that are happening to the West though. It's one thing when a small town gets hit by ransomware, it's another thing when a national-level pipeline gets crippled by it.
Eh. Solar Winds wasn't a disaster, except in so far as it was a giant embarrassment.
The Texas freeze was a disaster. And that mess was entirely analog. The Suxnet bug was a serious threat to physical infrastructure. The Colonial Pipeline shit was purely about money.
I don't know how true that is. I think that's more a blind spot in western reporting if anything. A municipal government in a corner of a Chinese providence or a Russian state getting ransomwared just doesn't rate as news to western media.
But it's noticeable how comically vulnerable the US businesses have proven to be, when so much of this software foundationally originates in the US to begin with. Like, US anti-virus has always been bad. But you'd think there would at least be some kind of profit motive behind curbing it.
A local government getting hacked is quite different from the national-level disasters that are happening to the West though. It's one thing when a small town gets hit by ransomware, it's another thing when a national-level pipeline gets crippled by it.
Eh. Solar Winds wasn't a disaster, except in so far as it was a giant embarrassment.
The Texas freeze was a disaster. And that mess was entirely analog. The Suxnet bug was a serious threat to physical infrastructure. The Colonial Pipeline shit was purely about money.