54: NotPetya

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The story of NotPetya, seems to be the first time, we see what a cyber war looks like. In the summer of 2017 Ukraine suffered a serious and catastrophic cyber attack on their whole country. Hear how it went down, what got hit, and who was responsible. Guest Thanks to Andy Greenberg for his research and sharing this story. I urge you to get his book Sandworm because it’s a great story. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by Linode. Linode supplies you with virtual servers. Visit linode.com/darknet and when signing up with a new account use code darknet2019 to get a $20 credit on your next project. Support for this episode comes from Honeybook. HoneyBook is an online business management tool that organizes your client communications, bookings, contracts, and invoices – all in one place. Visit honeybook.com/darknet to get 50% off your subscription. This episode was sponsored by CMD. Securing Linux systems is hard, let CMD help you with that. Visit cmd.com/dark to get a free demo. For more show notes visit darknetdiaries.com/episode/54. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, before we get started, check out the episode right before this one.
0:04.2	It's called Shadow Brokers.
0:05.7	It kinda sets you up for this one.
0:10.1	This is the story of not Petya, and it took place in the spring of 2017.
0:13.8	There was some weird tension between the US and Russia during that time.
0:17.7	Donald Trump was president of the US, and it's widely known that the Russians used the internet
0:22.0	to meddle with the election.
0:23.4	I mean, the FBI has indicted 12 hackers who are working with the Russian government that
0:27.1	have allegedly hacked the DNC and Clinton's email servers, which had a critical role in
0:31.8	the 2016 election.
0:33.4	The relationship between Trump and Putin is weird and mysterious.
0:37.8	A ton of allegations are floating around that a lot of back channel support is given
0:41.6	to Trump from Russia.
0:43.8	But what is clear is that Russia likes to quarrel with Ukraine.
0:47.4	They've been fighting over things for a long time, but in the last eight years, things
0:51.7	have really heated up.
0:53.2	Russia decided to take a territory of land from Ukraine, called Crimea.
0:57.1	And besides that, Russia has been deploying troops into Ukraine pretty much occupying
1:00.7	the area.
1:01.7	Like the stuff going on in the Dumboss region is just crazy.
1:04.9	This made tensions between Russia and Ukraine even more elevated.
1:08.4	And now, for like the last six years, Russian troops are still occupying places of Ukraine.
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