US expels Venezuelan diplomat after cyber-attack claims

[boppers]

22. Oh, maybe we haven't been introduced.

I used to be part of a 24/7 zero-day threat mitigation team. I retired, waaaaay too stressful.

A new attack vector would be found/released, and my job was to be able to identify it on the wire, in transit, within 24 hours, and write pattern detection code for it. Said code would than pass from the "dirty" side, to the "clean" side, where it would be inspected to ensure that no threat was being *inserted* by my code. That code would then be deployed. Widely. Nightly (these were 0-day threats). This was mid 2000's.

Very paranoid environment, but my code still runs in the NSA, DoD, CIA, FBI, AT&T, Verizon, Level 3, our nuke labs, Whitehouse, Congress, DoJ, etc...

So, trust me when I say I have a very real idea of the attack levels, frequency, and intensity, as well as how long this has been in play. * didn't give it much public attention, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there, it meant that press and budgets were lean.

One ambassador talking to one human team about an "attack" is just theater, as there are botnets in the millions trying hundreds of thousands of attacks *every goddamn day*.

"Our government is only recently waking up the seriousness." ... no. They're giving it more publicity now, and using laughable theater to make their point. They've been dealing with it for decades, quietly. I know, because I fought it on the front lines.