U.S., Britain blame Russia for global cyberattack

I run a few internet services and multiple servers.

They are under constant attacks, daily, hourly, right now. Most people have no idea how constant the probes are looking for weaknesses and incorrect configurations. On my most popular website, there will be over 20,000 attacks today, easily.

Many will come from China. I started completely blocking Russia and a few other Russian-connected subnets about 10 yrs ago - it just wasn't worth the hassles. But with VPNs, it is easy to launch attacks from locations around the world.

I also block as much of Amazon's EC2 subnets as possible. Those subnets are used by people around the world to get an IP in the USA.

Also have been attacked by subnets owned by American corporations like Microsoft and many others around the Washington D.C. area. I don't think MSFT was attacking me on purpose. I think it was because they'd been hacked and were being used by "bad guys." At this point, I haven't seen any significant attacks from MSFT Azure hosting.

These days, there are really about 5 countries actively hacking others as part of their national security. All the other hacking is for criminal reasons. This 2nd group of attacks often uses botnets from compromised systems and devices around the world.

Stay patched.

Always have at least 30 days of daily, versioned, backups.

It really wouldn't take much to take down the whole internet.... just if you did so, then most of the hacker's wouldn't really be able to do much afterwards anyway, so they wont go that far. Part of the hack is to not be discovered, until it's too late....

Next they will blame China...yawn.

And our pathetic so-called leader Trump (a true asset of the FSB) will not say or do anything. The strike against Syria (with a pre-warning via Trump) and then the Haley threat of sanctions (rebuffed afterwards) are just two small examples of his true allegiance. Say what you will but I believe every single word James Comey said in his interview about Trump. The Republican Party with the exception of John McCain and a few others for the most part need to all be voted OUT of office as aiders and abettors to the greatest "Benedict Arnold" we have for a President.

Moscow spokespersons have about zero credibility with their denials

LOL!!! US / UK politicians deserve this comment very much more. They still produced zero proof of any Russian hacking activity, they lied about gas attacks in Syria (see "Allies vague on evidence linking Syria to chemical attack" article in "World" section), they try desperately to wiggle out of the Scripal poisoning fiasco. Serial liars.

And the Bogeyman award for this whole decade goes to R..

A well earned and deserved award at that!

Russia once again shows it's ahead at cyberwarfare. It's got who knows how many hackers working for its numerous police/military agencies.

It's got so many farm/factory employees it can spread them out and have them send messages across a range of social media and online forums, sending out posts aimed at the 'west's' more intellectually vulnerable, alienated, angry and easily convinced populations.

But in Russia's defense, it does make good Matryoshka dolls.

And it's actually done a remarkable job increasing wheat production. In that regard, it's finally recovered from the mistakes made by Stalin.

Moscow spokespersons have about zero credibility with their denials, but have a good command of adjectives.