The attack destroyed over 47 TB of critical data, blocked internal systems, and effectively halted the plant’s operations.

I prefer the term Cyber Buccaneers .

We need to learn from it.

Similar attacks may be possible against our industry.

Slava Ukraini

”Ukrainian cybercriminals"

Hot take; damaging a nation's ability to perpetrate a genocide is not a crime.

This is actually pretty interesting. Russians are typically more tech savvy than you would expect. A factory full of them and this still happened.

What is your industry?

Recycling comic book characters into movies

than you would expect.

The cause might be somewhere in your expectations...

considered russia has done the same in various forms on different countries.

they are good at hacking and spreading propaganda via troll farms, putin probably employs more of them than other countries do,.

There are Russians who are more tech savvy than you would expect, but in average they're just like the rest.

One would expect that in Russia, like everywhere, the kind of people hired to manage the IT infrastructure in most companies are not the "hacker elite" (unless the company gets one purely by luck)

The only shocking thing here is that a military manufacturer - which one would expect to try a bit harder to find the kind of systems manager that can harden their internal systems - seems to have not properly hardenned/segregated their systems.

Then again, maybe they're not totally incompetent and do have their mission critical stuff air-gapped and the damage done by the Ukranian hackers is less impactful than the headline implies. From the outside it's hard to tell.