{"id":51349,"date":"2023-04-06T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/so-russia-has-a-stash-of-scary-malware-imagine-our-shock\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:01:14","slug":"so-russia-has-a-stash-of-scary-malware-imagine-our-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/so-russia-has-a-stash-of-scary-malware-imagine-our-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"So Russia has a stash of scary malware? Imagine our shock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Register Kettle<\/span> Lately, we’ve learned of Russia’s stockpile of cyber-weapons, and we’re genuinely wondering if anyone’s surprised by these revelations.<\/p>\n

If you’ll allow us some artistic license, ten years ago Edward Snowden waltzed out of the NSA’s server rooms with tucked under his arm highly classified Powerpoint slides of Five Eyes’ surveillance capabilities. Those documents included evidence of Western snoops overstepping legal boundaries.<\/p>\n

Now a whistleblower has done something kinda similar<\/a>, obtaining and leaking the so-called Vulkan files detailing the Kremlin’s arsenal of destructive malware. This code has been linked to the infamous NotPetya<\/a> outbreak and other attacks.<\/p>\n