The Ukraine telecom attack where they essentially knock down Ukraine telecom routing infrastructure for 24 hours came right back up. We see no, no impact that way, but we've also seen a failure across Russian military methodology where they can't seem to coordinate air and ground or see in ground or logistics and whatever you're trying to do. There's that piece that I want to acknowledge, but I also think that just thinking more and more about it and listening to Lorraine kind of saying, look, you need a year to do XYZ cyber activity is a strategic activity. You cannot move at tactical speed typically unless you have thoroughly done your homework on the, on the cyber side.
At the onset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many experts and government officials expected there to be two fronts of the war — one on the ground in Ukraine and one in cyberspace. But all things considered, we haven't seen as much offensive cyber warfare come from either side of this conflict this year. J.J. Cummings from Talos Threat Intelligence and Interdiction joins the show again to share his experience from working hands-on with networks in Ukraine. He, Lurene, Mitch and Matt discuss why there haven't been as many offensive attacks as we were expecting, or if they're just happening in the background and no one's talking about it.
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- Why Matt definitely doesn't spend too much time on Twitter.
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