The thing is, such attacks invite retaliation. Which can backfire.
The Ukrainian attacks themselves are retaliation for Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers that happened in late September. The Russians clearly did not think this through when they attacked MiroHost, Parkovy, Data Group, Utels, Pautina and Kyivstar.
To copy what I said elsewhere, that's when you do a little covert operations and say "nuh-uh wouldn't know anything about it" when the trollfarms turn a little incendiary.Â
A bit more seriously,Â
I think that rather trollfarms should be seen as acts of hybrid agression and acted on as such, with tit for tat measures. You don't want to start an active conflict over it, you don't want to start trollbotting back and be as dirty, but if those centres could burst up in flames inexpliccably or suffer waterdamage or something else that sabotages it, or if the internal misinformation/propaganda got fought with more fervor, and the identities and addresses behind of the thug squads oppressive regimes often need to function got revealed, and any officials whose secrecy and privacy must be maintained to play part in oppression, to make the nation a hostile environment to the oppression operatus, that'd be the kind of
 hybrid countermeasures I'd like to see.
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u/Hodorization 4d ago
The thing is, such attacks invite retaliation. Which can backfire.
The Ukrainian attacks themselves are retaliation for Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers that happened in late September. The Russians clearly did not think this through when they attacked MiroHost, Parkovy, Data Group, Utels, Pautina and Kyivstar.
Let's be careful what we wish for