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Report: Russian mob aided cyberattacks on Georgia
Civilians recruited by Russian language social networking sites and using Russian Mafia-associated botnets perpetrated many of the cyberattacks on Georgian government Web sites during the five-day Russian-Georgian war in 2008, according to a recent report.
However, while the cyberattackers appear to have had advance notice of the invasion and the benefit of some close cooperation from a state organ, there were no fingerprints directly linking the attacks to the Russian government or military, according to the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit (US-CCU), an independent nonprofit research institute that produced the report.
Much of the material in the report was already … Read more
