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UK Blames Russia For Cyber Attack, Says Won't Tolerate Disruption (reuters.com) 143

Posted by msmash from the enough-is-enough dept.
Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt Benckiser. From a report: Russia denied the accusation, saying it was part of "Russophobic" campaign it said was being waged by some Western countries. The so-called NotPetya attack in June started in Ukraine where it crippled government and business computers before spreading around the world, halting operations at ports, factories and offices. Britain's foreign ministry said the attack originated from the Russian military. "The decision to publicly attribute this incident underlines the fact that the UK and its allies will not tolerate malicious cyber activity," the ministry said in a statement. "The attack masqueraded as a criminal enterprise but its purpose was principally to disrupt," it said.
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  • Harsh Response (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    That'll teach them, if we just keep telling them we wont tolerate things enough maybe they'll just stop poisoning people in London with radioactive materials, and stop bringing down NHS systems and such.

    We just need to keep up the pressure of telling them how much we wont tolerate it and then they'll stop.

    • Re: Harsh Response (Score:3, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward

      This series of 6 articles [buzzfeed.com] alleges the Russian state or their Mafia allies have committed 17 politically motivated murders in the UK.

      To save us all time, I'll preempt the usual Krembot objections: yes, it's Buzzfeed, the evidence is in the six articles.

      The UK authorities have apparently been reluctant to do anything about it for fear of unleashing further mayhem or disturbing the huge amounts of dirty Russian money swilling around London, sorry invested in the UK.

  • Sounds like fake news (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Yeah

  • Ironic irony (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Badlight ( 2696267 ) on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:41AM (#56128522)

    "Country with history of lying about foreign affairs accusing another country with a history of lying about foreign affairs of lying about foreign affairs."

    This story was a waste of electricity.

  • Hypocrites (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Given what GCHQ get up to, that makes the UK government a bunch of utter grade A hypocrites.

  • At least they didn't ask for it (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Hasaf ( 3744357 ) on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:56AM (#56128630)

    At least the UK leadership did not, publicly and directly, implore Russia to involve themselves in the internal decision making process in the UK.It is kind of hard to act self-righteous if you first ask them to do it.

  • "..The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back..becausethe Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”

    This is why the leaders of the West should never get complacent, it's one step away from cocky and negligent.
    It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.

  • Oh, well ... if they won't tolerate it, that's different.

    We are so sorry, comrade!

    • Oh, well ... if they won't tolerate it, that's different.

      We are so sorry, comrade!

      No Royal Wedding invitations for you!

      That'll show 'em!

      Maybe the SAS can toss some Corgis at Russians, as well.

  • Interesting comments, indeed. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Gravis Zero ( 934156 ) on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:10AM (#56128720)

    Does anyone else thing it's interesting that the first 10 comments regarding a story about Russia come from anon or high number registered users that cast doubt on the story and putting it in a Republicans versus Democrats light? I'm just saying, it seems like the kind of thing Russian agents might be vying for.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Maritz ( 1829006 )
      Well, it's working perfectly, so I don't expect them to stop any time soon.
    • If you think Slashdot these days has any "reach" and is thus worth the efforts of paid shills, you're kidding yourself. Stories struggle to get 100 comments, something common years ago. Maybe, just maybe, there are people out there with opinions you disagree with. This doesn't make them "dirty foreigners". We have met the enemy, and he is us.
      • Doesn’t matter. It’s free to dump shit, so they dump it everywhere. We need covert ops in russia to start taking out the leaders of these programs.
        • Jesus Christ, calling for fucking war? With less proof than Iraq. What is wrong with you? You're seeing Russians under the bed. Fun fact: you know who wrote the infamous WMD memo that was used as a false flag to start the Iraq War? Robert Mueller. Yup, the same one.

    • Does anyone else thing it's interesting that the first 10 comments regarding a story about Russia come from anon or high number registered users that cast doubt on the story and putting it in a Republicans versus Democrats light? I'm just saying, it seems like the kind of thing Russian agents might be vying for.

      I admire your hermetic seal.

      Is my ID low enough for ya?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by geek ( 5680 )

      Or maybe you're a Russian trying to draw attention of the others to suit you're overlords needs. Or maybe it's Russians all the way down............

      Red Scare of 2017-18.

    • Well, let's play Guess That Shill. We've paid democrat shills [wikipedia.org], US deep state shills from things like this [wikipedia.org] and this [congress.gov]. We've corporate shills [topseos.com] too, and definitely republican shills [heartland.org].

      Personally, I noticed how Bernie Sanders was treated by the press, and how after the election with the flick of the switch all of the usual mouth pieces were on the same page with blaming fake news and russian collusion. It was actually impressive how well that was coordinated.

      So now I wonder, who benefits the most from making the

  • Don't tolerate it. Now what, Theresa? What exactly are you going to do about it? How, exactly are you going to not tolerate it? Nuke them? Impose sanctions or something? Who is going to listen to you and your jokes? Some poor soul somewhere on the Isle of something or other, perhaps. Some retired pinhead with a greasy fat chip in one hand and a union jack in another wailing "we don't need no immagrunts!". You left the eu, remember? Trump is all about america first so he sure as hell isn't going to back you

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AHuxley ( 892839 )
      The GCHQ can get its over time and a new budget. Contractors can fly to the USA and go shopping for advanced new US tech.
      Contractors from the USA can fly over to the UK and rent their new cyber tools.
      Cyber money is on the table with every code litter story thats pre approved for publication.
      The better the fiction, the better the funding.
      More stories in the media, more over time.
      Get a really good fictional story going and the budget gets lots of attention.

  • The only things Russia cares about are: cryptocurrency, and purchases of oil and natural gas.

    Quadruple investment in Renewables and cut them off at the knees.

  • why do we have to care what that dumb island has to say? what has England done for anyone in the past 25 years? mod it "troll" all you want, but you know you can't give a straight answer to that question.

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