> Frantic much? A lot of fear, uncertainty and delusion in this one.
Fear, yes. Uncertainty, yes. Delusion? You might want to look in the mirror...
Russia has been dabbling with cyber hacking, espionage, propaganda and theft for the last few decades. While tacitly supporting "private" hacking groups, so long as they were attacking and stealing from non-Russians.
Now, with Russia actively being at war and with embargoes slamming into place against them, we're going to get a lot of things happening.
First, a lot more of the tools being used for state-level hacking are going to leak into the public domain, simply because they're being used more. I'd expect a flurry of new zero-day exploits to appear Real Soon Now. And once those are picked up by commercial black hats, there won't be a safe server in the world.
Secondly, as with North Korea, Russian hackers are going to be targeting anything with financial value that can either be stolen or ransomed. Because their economy is about to seriously tank and they'll be desperate for money in general and foreign currency in particular.
Thirdly, you're going to get lots of amateur "affiliated" people on both sides going on hacking and defacement sprees.
And so on.
It's all going to get very very messy, and thinking "it won't affect me" is frankly more delusional than expecting trouble.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
