{"id":23993,"date":"2020-10-20T04:19:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/19\/russias-cyber-attack-plan-for-olympics-part-of-a-familiar-pattern"},"modified":"2020-10-20T04:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:19:26","slug":"russias-cyber-attack-plan-for-olympics-part-of-a-familiar-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23993","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s cyber-attack plan for Olympics part of a familiar pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reach of the GRU spy unit behind attacks on Japan and South Korea is remarkable<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/19\/russia-planned-cyber-attack-on-tokyo-olympics-says-uk\">Russia planned cyber-attack on Tokyo Olympics, says UK <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the aftermath of Moscow\u2019s hacking of the 2016 US election, many analysts expected the GRU to be punished. After all, Russia\u2019s powerful military spy agency had been caught red-handed. The FBI indicted several GRU hackers in humiliating fashion. The spies who stole Democratic party emails \u2013 tens and thousands of them \u2013 were named and shamed.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the GRU avoided any repressions. In recent years Vladimir Putin has carried out a sweeping and brutal reorganisation at the top of government, sending a shiver down the spine of nervous bureaucrats. He has sacked or had arrested regional governors and ministers. Even the FSB, Putin\u2019s old spy agency and a rival to the GRU, has seen generals fired.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/19\/russias-cyber-attack-plan-for-olympics-part-of-a-familiar-pattern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reach of the GRU spy unit behind attacks on Japan and South Korea is remarkableRussia planned cyber-attack on Tokyo Olympics, says UK In the aftermath of Moscow\u2019s hacking of the 2016 US election, many analysts expected the GRU to be punished. After&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,342,419,222,882,818,1716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-vladimir-putin","category-winter-olympics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23994,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993\/revisions\/23994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}