I don’t know a lot about this space, but I don’t know especially how many skills translate from offense to defense.
Is this basically just a call for folks to turn in their 0days and access or something? Seems wt least marginally more useful than trying to train up a bunch of script kiddies to fight GRU…
> "Ukrainian cybercommunity! It's time to get involved in the cyber defense of our country," the post read, asking hackers and cybersecurity experts to submit an application via Google docs, listing their specialties, such as malware development, and professional references.
You'd be amazed at how well offensive skills translate to defense. Some of the best blue-teamers are former red-teamers. If you don't have offensive skills, it's very easy to overlook things, especially when it comes to pivoting and exploit chaining.
So it's effectively a free honey pot for Russia to get information on Ukranian cyber security professionals and a free pass to infiltrate them?
But it sure is disingenuous using something as low sec like Google docs. At least get people to submit it via GPG or something...
That said, the law in most places isn't going to allow/support this. It could maybe even interfere with state sponsored operations.
It would be interesting to see a sort of privateer license in this space. If I remember correctly, Russia pretty much doesn't care about people violating cyber laws in Russia so long as the victims are in other countries.
It's a good idea, which has come up in the (relatively) recent past, although not specifically in the cyber domain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque#21st-century_...
But what actually would be good cyber warfare is hacking Putin’s family. Notoriously private and says his family is off limits and he never talks about them. I’m sure his kids aren’t normal like he claims.
> For the daughter of a billionaire dictator, John Oliver made her sound fairly normal
Most people are fairly normal :) Not every rich powerful kid goes full Uday Hussein.