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Many state bodies involved in adversarial action have dedicated budgets for offensive cyber-warfare, credential thefts, supply chain compromises and disinformation. If they haven't used all of their budget by the end of the budget period, they'll be allocated a smaller budget for the next budget period.

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Cool theory but that should result in other attacks that peak in February too, can you give examples?

Oh ffs. Whenever I think my opinion on the state of the world can’t get any lower, things somehow manage to get dumber.

I mean this is a common pattern in many large organizations, governmental and non, if you didn't use your budget it means we can save money, yayyyy! I hadn't really considered it would apply to state-backed hacking but makes sense.

State sponsored cyber attacks are news to you? It's been a thing since more than 2 decades now.

Not the attacks themselves, I would expect that kind or sabotage that actively provokes negative outcomes in people’s lives to have a more respectful/competent reasoning behind than “meh there’s a few leftovers and we had to do something”

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