Those Pesky Rus...

via outstanding reportage by BBC technology reporters Chris Fox & Leo Kelion, comes the tale of United Kingdom, Canadian and United States COVID-19 vaccine researchers and those troublesome Russian spies apparently hell-bent on thievery of the heinous sort - theft of vaccine reseach data and associated secrets by APT29 (aka CozyBear, The Dukes, CozyDuke and YTTRIUM). Also this.

This Is A Test, And Only A Test - Russia Shuts Down External Internet Routing

via Catalin Cimpanu, writing at the ZeroDay Blog at ZDNet, comes news of the reportedly successful test disconnect of Russia from the Internet-At-Large (so to speak). Effectively modifying those network connects to point inward (with no external routing) - thus making the internal Russian interweb (monikered RuNet) into the largest intranet on the planet. Perhaps they should maintain the disconnected state of their networks permanently...

GRU'd →

via The Daily Beast's Spencer Ackerman and Kevin Poulsen, comes the tale of Guccifer 2.0, an officer of the GRU, Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (also known as, the Russian Military Intelligence Directorate); and, of course, there's this and this.. H/T