Your "possibly political" statement is conspiracy theory nonsense. It's entirely unsurprising that they launched the attack at the beginning of a long holiday weekend when there would be fewer eyes monitoring systems and able to pull plugs/remediate in the moment.
what does this mean exactly? could you (or anyone else who shares this sentiment) elaborate?
why is everyone (mainstream news, etc.) so quick to refer to any attack originating from a Russian IP address as "Russian" (either implied or directly stated to mean "Russian government")—yet positing that these attacks might have political motivations behind them is a "conspiracy theory"?
On the other hand, if they would try to make an administration look bad, then they would pick other times and targets.
It’s like when people attack old ladies and other people known to carry cash and instead of looking first at criminal opportunism attribute it to people hating old ladies going to the ATM.
I personally believe that dismissing any sort of theorizing as being "conspiracy theory nonsense" is more harmful than any sort of benign theorizing itself. this line of thinking seems to assert that in reality, nothing ever happens with ulterior motives, people and groups in seats of power wouldn't do anything and everything to maintain said power under any circumstances, everything is just an isolated, random occurrence, geopolitics don't exist, and that looking for patterns and connections is something that only delusional people engage in.
many people have been programmed to react to anything not commonly-accepted in the mainstream "narrative" by immediately labeling it a "conspiracy theory" and then refusing to think any more critically about it. I believe the rapid spread of this way of thinking to be incredibly dangerous to society as a whole. I am not saying that theorizing should be taken as fact, merely that theories shouldn't be dismissed entirely out of hand using a stock phrase. in fact, when discussing such things, or anything really, any sort of kneejerk word/phrase association-type response should give one pause, because these word/phrase associations are learned behavior, and it may be enlightening to determine the source of this learned behavior.
Back in my day we just called it FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
When did FUD go out of style?