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	"title": "Russia's Cyberwar on Ukraine Is a Blueprint for What's to Come",
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	"plain_text": "Russia's Cyberwar on Ukraine Is a Blueprint for What's to Come\r\nBy Andy Greenberg\r\nPublished: 2017-06-20 · Archived: 2026-04-05 18:56:35 UTC\r\nThe clocks read zero when the lights went out.\r\nIt was a Saturday night last December, and Oleksii Yasinsky was sitting on the couch with his wife and teenage\r\nson in the living room of their Kiev apartment. The 40-year-old Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher and his family\r\nwere an hour into Oliver Stone’s film Snowden when their building abruptly lost power.\r\n“The hackers don’t want us to finish the movie,” Yasinsky’s wife joked. She was referring to an event that had\r\noccurred a year earlier, a cyberattack that had cut electricity to nearly a quarter-million Ukrainians two days before\r\nChristmas in 2015. Yasinsky, a chief forensic analyst at a Kiev digital security firm, didn’t laugh. He looked over\r\nat a portable clock on his desk: The time was 00:00. Precisely midnight.\r\nYasinsky’s television was plugged into a surge protector with a battery backup, so only the flicker of images\r\nonscreen lit the room now. The power strip started beeping plaintively. Yasinsky got up and switched it off to save\r\nits charge, leaving the room suddenly silent.\r\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/\r\nPage 1 of 3\n\nHe went to the kitchen, pulled out a handful of candles and lit them. Then he stepped to the kitchen window. The\r\nthin, sandy-blond engineer looked out on a view of the city as he’d never seen it before: The entire skyline around\r\nhis apartment building was dark. Only the gray glow of distant lights reflected off the clouded sky, outlining\r\nblackened hulks of modern condos and Soviet high-rises.\r\nNoting the precise time and the date, almost exactly a year since the December 2015 grid attack, Yasinsky felt sure\r\nthat this was no normal blackout. He thought of the cold outside—close to zero degrees Fahrenheit—the slowly\r\nsinking temperatures in thousands of homes, and the countdown until dead water pumps led to frozen pipes.\r\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/\r\nPage 2 of 3\n\nThat’s when another paranoid thought began to work its way through his mind: For the past 14 months, Yasinsky\r\nhad found himself at the center of an enveloping crisis. A growing roster of Ukrainian companies and government\r\nagencies had come to him to analyze a plague of cyberattacks that were hitting them in rapid, remorseless\r\nsuccession. A single group of hackers seemed to be behind all of it. Now he couldn’t suppress the sense that those\r\nsame phantoms, whose fingerprints he had traced for more than a year, had reached back, out through the\r\ninternet’s ether, into his home.\r\nThe Cyber-Cassandras said this would happen. For decades they warned that hackers would soon make the leap\r\nbeyond purely digital mayhem and start to cause real, physical damage to the world. In 2009, when the NSA’s\r\nStuxnet malware silently accelerated a few hundred Iranian nuclear centrifuges until they destroyed themselves, it\r\nseemed to offer a preview of this new era. “This has a whiff of August 1945,” Michael Hayden, former director of\r\nthe NSA and the CIA, said in a speech. “Somebody just used a new weapon, and this weapon will not be put back\r\nin the box.”\r\nNow, in Ukraine, the quintessential cyberwar scenario has come to life. Twice. On separate occasions, invisible\r\nsaboteurs have turned off the electricity to hundreds of thousands of people. Each blackout lasted a matter of\r\nhours, only as long as it took for scrambling engineers to manually switch the power on again. But as proofs of\r\nconcept, the attacks set a new precedent: In Russia’s shadow, the decades-old nightmare of hackers stopping the\r\ngears of modern society has become a reality.\r\nAnd the blackouts weren’t just isolated attacks. They were part of a digital blitzkrieg that has pummeled Ukraine\r\nfor the past three years—a sustained cyberassault unlike any the world has ever seen. A hacker army has\r\nsystematically undermined practically every sector of Ukraine: media, finance, transportation, military, politics,\r\nenergy. Wave after wave of intrusions have deleted data, destroyed computers, and in some cases paralyzed\r\norganizations’ most basic functions. “You can’t really find a space in Ukraine where there hasn’t been an attack,”\r\nsays Kenneth Geers, a NATO ambassador who focuses on cybersecurity.\r\nSource: https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/\r\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/\r\nPage 3 of 3",
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