After a series of successful cyber attacks Russian hackers, the Americans are preparing to strike back. NBC announced that the American military hackers penetrated into the energy system of Russia, telecommunication network and “command” of the Kremlin, citing a senior official in the U.S. intelligence and secret documents.
The channel claims that the US has a secret weapon and plan on causing maximum damage to Russia. If the Russians will try to prevent elections in the United States, they will use it.
What is it? Bluff or real threat? Is there such a weapon?
In August of this year, a group of hackers Shadow Brokers announced the theft of cyber weapons from other hackers associated with the NSA and put them up for auction. A few hours later the website of the national security Agency stopped work for almost a day.
The sequence of these events is evidence that some cyber weapons from us intelligence and part of it was stolen.
Remember 2010, when it was discovered the Stuxnet virus, which the US used to attack the nuclear project of Iran.
The virus used previously unknown vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and freely distributed through the stick, which was connected to the computer. To infect computers didn’t have something to hack. The unsuspecting employees were spreading the virus.
The majority of enterprises located in Russia are also working under the operating system Windows, therefore the probability of cracking is.
And those who stole NSA weapon, theoretically could substitute Russia, for example, having made a massive attack on the polls, U.S. election day. The States used electronic voting system and the us military will monitor the stability of the computers counting votes. By the way, the power outage at the polling station may also be considered as a cyber attack. That’s such a difficult situation.
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