Reply to post: "Tried and true technique and exactly my approach. Remember Target?"

No big deal... Kremlin hackers 'jumped air-gapped networks' to pwn US power utilities

John Smith 19 Gold badge

"Tried and true technique and exactly my approach. Remember Target?"

I was thinking "Isn't this exactly how STUXNET was infected into the Iranian nuclear programme?

Who thought US companies would be so dumb to fall for this?*

*Kidding. If a nation state started laying explosives around the infrastructure of another nation state this would be called an act of war. It is time alien code running on strategic servers was viewed in the same way.

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