Cyberwar in Estonia organized the hacker group "Gelatin"

The famous journalist and cyberpunk writer Bruce Sterling was very impressed with what happened in Estonia five months ago, when the computer infrastructure of this small country was subjected to a powerful DDoS attack . It is still not entirely clear what happened then, but experts continue to discuss this unprecedented incident, which is called the first in history an example of full-scale cyber-aggression against a whole state.

What happened in April-May 2007? Bruce Sterling has his version. At one of his lectures at the University of Korea, he said that the Russian hacker group Gelatin (Zhelatin) was most likely the perpetrator of the DDoS attack. What is most interesting, this small war is only a weak demonstration of the capabilities of the world's largest botnet controlled by Gelatin. The true capabilities of this "weapon" we still have to learn in the future, but anyone, even the whole country, can become a target.

Lecture by Bruce Sterling at a conference in Seoul: video (28 min 35 sec).