インターネット調査室：　「How spies took down Putin’s most insidious weapon against the West」

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The 　telegraph: 11 May,2023

「How spies took down Putin’s most insidious weapon against the West」:  これは興味深いです。

The Snake malicious software (malware) network, used by Russia’s FSB spy agency, was knocked offline by the West’s Five Eyes espionage alliance on Tuesday in a multinational swoop codenamed Operation Medusa.

ネーミングがいいですね（笑）。

Their takedown has disabled a vital Kremlin tool for interfering in Western elections, disrupting businesses and gathering intelligence on Moscow’s enemies – ending a two-decade-long cyber spying campaign that indiscriminately targeted businesses and Western governments alike.

本当は、知っていたのでは?

In a landmark piece of cooperation between the West’s five pre-eminent cyber powers – Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the US – the networks of computers used to control Snake’s central piece of malware were kicked off the internet, effectively rendering Russian operatives blind.

日本は入っていないですね。

Snake’s direct origins lie in 2003, when FSB computer experts began developing a piece of custom malware codenamed Ouroboros by their Western counterparts.

ある意味、やはりすごいロシア。

The resulting cascade of virus infections took the US military 14 months to completely eradicate from its networks, with desperate commanders even resorting to a blanket ban on USB sticks.

あ〜　あ〜

Chester Wisniewski, chief technical officer for applied research at the cyber security company Sophos, says it took the Russians “years and years to develop Snake” and that its loss will hit Putin’s spies hard.

かも知れません。

The story of the system's collapse sheds new light on the shadowy battle taking place between rival governments online.

こういうのも戦争ですよね～。

FBI intelligence operatives developed a way of secretly tracking how Snake was able to infect target computers and quietly ping its Russian operators to tell them a freshly compromised computer was available for their use.

怖いです。　恐らく日本にも来ているでしょう。

FBI intelligence operatives developed a way of secretly tracking how Snake was able to infect target computers and quietly ping its Russian operators to tell them a freshly compromised computer was available for their use.

ま〜　ロシア人は発想が違いますからね。

All compare the malware’s operations with cyber crime networks of the sort that their respective companies track – and all expect that the FSB will soon resurrect its beheaded Snake.

確かに。

本来の日本の野党は、こういうのを与党にどうなっているのか追求すべきでしょう。できないのは?

理由はともかく、これで与党は特をしています。何も対策をしなくていいわけですから。

今の野党だと、与党はすごく楽です。

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