speakers. people that want to be a part of the russian sphere of influence and we have to do our duty to protect them and that is what the pentagon is alleging today, but it didn t reveal any sources and so far russia hasn t commented him on it. but that kind of, this is a specific false flag operation, because you d have russian special forces, if the pentagon is correct, potentially attacking their own side in order to blame the ukrainians to create a pre text for war. then on the other side, have you this very mysterious hacking attack. right. so 70 websites, government websites suddenly went down including the foreign ministry, security agencies, also the government agency that tracks the covid testing and when they went down as they were going down, there was a warning published and it said, be afraid, expect the worst.
entertainment, and china has launched a sequel to what hollywood has done for the last 100 years. very interesting. there were reports a couple days ago of a hacking attack in the corporation, some people s e-mails being tapped into, and the report is that china is suspected, that china is the suspected culprit. has this affected you, is there anything you can tell us about it? i don t know too much about this. being someone who is associated with news corp and who writes about china, i know depressingly little about what s happened. it is an example, i think, of something hitting closer to home that i have covered in my own reporting. i m things like we need to speak in code. and i m often the reporter who has to be worried about broaching certain topics on certain phone conversations or seeing the phone call mysteriously drop. i think this is another example of some of the perils and the
pipeline? yes, that s the real problem. when you have all these individuals targeting nation states then you have the risk that the attacks may be misattributed or use it as a pretext to attack another country preemptively. and some of those attacks can cause physical damage. we ve also seen since the beginning of this invasion on the 24th, on the very morning of the initial invasion, we saw a network knocked out across europe in an apparent hacking attack. and that s had a real-world impact on devices like on wind energy farms and across different parts of industry. and this has been a extended duration cyber attack. already impacting ukraine but
The malware was supposed to resemble a hijacking program but did not have a ransom recovery mechanism. Instead of securing a ransom, the program was designed to incapacitate target devices, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center said