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Killnet's Legacy: Weaponizing a Nation #shorts

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Killnet normalized nation-on-nation cyberattacks, weaponizing populations. Now, hacktivism spreads. India-Canada spats trigger doxing. A dangerous precedent is set. How do we reckon with this? #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra #alexholden #Hacktivism #CyberWarfare
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This is a legacy of kilnet that we have to reckon with the wave of cactivism as I mentioned in the beginning that um actually started uh in a very terrible way and it normalized attacks of one nation to another. This is experiment of Russian government to weaponize the entire population. And while 100,000 people in Russia is not that much percentage-wise, it shows that one nation can engage into cyber warfare against uh its enemies without declaring a formal war. And this example was actually set uh beyond Russia. We see the same thing happening in Middle East right now. when one nation can attack another one in cyerspace, one group uh religious or political can attack another group without much

repercussions. uh in 2024 we saw um political spat between uh Canada and India and the next very next day activists from uh India start attacking um Canada Canadian citizens uh across the entire uh internet doxing um releasing information on Canadian citizens. This is a legacy of kilnet that we have to reckon