The screenshot shows the post in English. The website domain is Indian. The seller contact xmpp.cn in China. But no, we'll keep blaming Russia for everything.
>I agree. Every single security thing that happens is put on Russia.
This is transparently false. Both Russia and China have copped blame for various recent attacks. And the fact of the matter is that Russian hackers are extremely active at the moment, and were even before 2022.
>If we were pre-Ukraine, it’d be China getting all the blame (like it used to be).
Russia was behind the Solarwinds hack, which is the most widely covered one in the past decade. Ironically the Chinese were also independently exploiting Solarwinds to break into government agencies, but that didn't get much attention.
When they don’t know who did something, they say Russia.
I suppose it makes sense to say that I live in the UK. Depending on where you are in the world, you may be hearing blame on Russia passed a lot less.
But in the UK, it is constant. It is tiresome.
Regarding how active Russian hackers are, I bet they are not any more active than GCHQ, NSA etc. they are all at it. God, even Israel will sell their Pegasus to any dictator who will pay them the money.
People in ex-USSR also speak/write Russian, so while I have no doubt Russians frequent the forum, lots of others from their sphere of influence also visit that forum. Don't assume everyone on HN is a 5-eyes resident.
Just russia being russia, as usual.