The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Wednesday, coinciding with the major BRICS summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Posted on October 23, 2024 by Dissent
Russia says ‘unprecedented’ cyber attack hits foreign ministry amid BRICS summit
The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Wednesday, coinciding with the major BRICS summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
- Earlier Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).
She noted that the ministry regularly encounters similar attacks, but today’s attack was “unprecedented in scale.”
The BRICS summit, aimed at demonstrating Moscow’s global standing despite Western sanctions, takes place in Russia’s Kazan on Oct. 22-24.
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Then-Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill introduced the term BRIC in 2001 in a research paper that underlined the massive growth potential of Brazil, Russia, India and China – and the need to reform global governance to include them.
O’Neill, who admitted he would ”have Mr. BRICS stamped on my forehead forever”, said the BRICS as a group had achieved very little over the past 15 years.
The idea of the BRICS group ever challenging the U.S. dollar is for the fairies as long as China and India remain so divided and refuse to cooperate on trade, the former Goldman Sachs economist who came up with the BRIC acronym told Reuters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is using the summit of BRICS leaders to show that Western attempts to isolate Russia over the Ukraine war have failed and that Russia is building ties with the rising powers of Asia.
Then-Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill introduced the term BRIC in 2001 in a research paper that underlined the massive growth potential of Brazil, Russia, India and China – and the need to reform global governance to include them.
”The idea that the BRICS can be some genuine global economic club, it’s obviously a bit out there with the fairies in the same way that the G7 can be, and it’s very disturbing that they see themselves as some kind of alternative global thing, because it’s obviously not feasible,” O’Neill told Reuters.
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