alt Hacker NewsHonest question: how do state-sponsored attacks from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia affect civilian life?
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asib • yesterday at 11:10 PM
WannaCry massively affected the NHS.
Honest question: how do state-sponsored attacks from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia affect civilian life?
WannaCry massively affected the NHS.
Presumably, those have influenced elections, though I guess it depends what you count as an attack.
Plenty of bots try to modify public opinion. Someone hacked the DNC in 2015/16, the result of which also alleged attempted manipulation in 2008:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_...
Since we (as old Rummy said) do not know what we do not know, we cannot be certain about the extent of cyber attacks and what they might have influenced, and may not know these things until discoveries decades later, if ever.