In today's Wall Street Journal, Margaret Coker and Paul Sonne, [Ukraine, Cyberwar's Hottest Front] updates (in great detail) a story I told in The New Cyberwar, my latest book. This particular incident involved the hacking the Ukraine Central Election Commission, attempting to disrupt the establishment of an official tally for the final election results. They missed the point of the espionage software that was found in Ukraine's computers, and failed to mention that it was also found in Latvia, the next rung on Putin's ladder.
Espionage is the initial purpose. Collecting and analyzing information about what leaders think. There were only 38 occurences one popular method that was used, making it harder to detect and less strenuous to analyze. It targeted leaders in more than Ukraine. The Chinese and Russians listen more than they try to hack for the purpose of disruption.
They were on target with a discussion of the reliance on an old infrastructure that has a history of being pirated software that came from old Russian equipment managed by Russian companies. Unlike the Russians who went into Crimea, the government of Ukraine didn't replace its infrastructure with new equipment that it controlled. The Russians knew the importance of that because they were using the equipment for their own benefit.
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