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263 points josephcsible | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 00:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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lysace ◴[07 Dec 25 01:07 UTC] No.46178287[source]▶
Yet another attack vector for the Russians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_sabotage_operations_in...

See e.g. https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7785/artykul/2508878,russian... (2020)

> Almost 700 schools throughout Poland were in May last year targeted by hoax bomb threats during key exams, private Polish radio broadcaster RMF FM reported.

> It cited Polish investigators it did not name as saying that a detailed analysis of internet connections and a thorough examination of the content of emails with false bomb threats turned up ties to servers in the Russian city of St. Petersburg.

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1. alephnerd ◴[07 Dec 25 01:48 UTC] No.46178472[source]▶
> Yet another attack vector

AI-Generated disinfo has been a known attack vector for the Russian regime (and their allied regimes) for years now [0][1].

[0] - https://cyberscoop.com/russia-ukraine-china-iran-information...

[1] - https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/esp...