Russian Hackers, Cold Imaginations
Benjamin Peters
(with Marijeta Bozovic)
Cybersecurity Threats from Russia, Eastern Europe, & Eurasia and the Global Spread of Disinformation University of Kansas
April 2022
Hackersinitiative.yale.edu
Seven Points
- What does unmotivated analysis look like? Can we know?
- The internet was never Soviet until it suddenly was
- The Russian hacker often serves as a convenient Enemy Other
- The Russian hacker looks best in high res color, not grayscale
- The Russian hacker, while fixed from afar, appears tactically mutable up close
- States do not have public frameworks for approaching cyberwar
- Russian cybercriminal hackers slow Russian cyberwar hackers
- What does unmotivated analysis look like? Can we be sure?
- The internet was never Soviet until it was
- Russian hacker, a convenient enemy Other
3. Russian hacker, a convenient enemy Other
- Russian hacker, a convenient enemy Other
- The Russian hacker looks best in high res color, not grayscale
Russian hackers...
- Hybrid Russian-speaking business networks
- Guns for hire
- State employees and contractors
- Agents of chaos E. Citizen hacktivists
- Ethical hackers
- And others...
- Hacker identities are tactically malleable
- States do not yet have public frameworks for cyberwar
- Russian cybercriminal hackers slow Russian cyberwar hackers
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