True, but suppose it’s a hit and run strategy...
Take down a single company that processes credit card transactions for a short period of time, disrupt a few million transactions create angst in the consumer world...
It would probably slide under the radar because it was just a single company that was hit....and they weren’t very up on cyber security anyway....
I can think of a couple of examples that I have been suspicious of.....
Delta had their entire network go offline a couple of years ago, they blamed it on a ops center going offline in Atlanta...
United’s entire network went offline and it was blamed on a router change in Chicago....
the NYSE halted trading during the day and could not close the day out a few years back, they blamed it on a software upgrade....
And most recently Google, YouTube, and all their other companies went down worldwide last week.....they to my knowledge haven’t released any official excuse....
I don’t believe any of the official excuses..
I think they were hacked by someone, IMO many of the cyber attacks are done by an insider within a company...
[I don’t believe any of the official excuses..
I think they were hacked by someone, IMO many of the cyber attacks are done by an insider within a company...]
All of these offensive capabilities take a while to put together. Private hackers use them to make money, so they do things related to monetization that inevitably lead to discovery. State actors save them for a rainy day.