Yes, I believe that.
> If your statement was even remotely true then why is this not used in conflicts to devastating effect?
It has been, it continues to be.
Where have you been?
> If your statement was even remotely true then why is this not used in conflicts to devastating effect?
It has been, it continues to be.
Where have you been?
Air gapping is a baseline requirement in most safety critical systems. Nuclear power plants in particular have lots of redundant layers of safety. AFAIK Russia hasn't physically tried to cause a meltdown, presumably due to the political blow back (although they have attacked Chernobyl's sarcophagus). I assume this limits their digital espionage attacks too.
We do get glimpses of the use of such malware, like when Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos' phone. But we don't hear about most of it because there is a benefit to keeping a hack secret, so as to keep access.
Finally, it's usually cheaper to social engineer someone into loading a PowerPoint presentation and doing a local privilege escalation. They burn those for things as petty as getting embarrassing political information.
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