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Getting Bored of Cyberwar: Exploring the Role of the Cybercrime Underground in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. (arXiv:2208.10629v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)
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There has been substantial commentary on the role of cyberattacks,
hacktivists, and the cybercrime underground in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Drawing on a range of data sources, we argue that the widely-held narrative of
a cyberwar fought by committed 'hacktivists' linked to cybercrime groups is
misleading. We collected 281K web defacement attacks, 1.7M reflected DDoS
attacks, and 441 announcements (with 58K replies) of a volunteer hacking
discussion group for two months before and four months after the invasion. To
enrich our …
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