Re: Windows 7 Download Russian
Floro Turpin
Since the beginning of 2022, multiple unusual deaths of Russian businesspeople or high officials, sometimes including their family members, have occurred under what some sources suggest were suspicious circumstances.[1][2][3][4]
On 3 June 2022 the Dutch NOS news network described the phenomenon as "a grim series of Russian billionaires, many from the oil and gas industries, who have been found dead under unusual circumstances since early this year. The first was on 30 January, when 60-year-old Leonid Shulman, transport chief for Russian energy giant Gazprom, was found dead in the bathroom of his country house in the Leningrad region. Beside his body was a suicide note."[4] On 6 July 2022, CNN Portugal described the group as "millionaires with direct or indirect links to the Kremlin found dead in a mystery scenario since the beginning of the year".[5] It referred to a previous investigation by USA Today, which concluded that "38 Russian businessmen and oligarchs close to the Kremlin died in mysterious or suspicious circumstances between 2014 and 2017."[5] The phenomenon has been called "sudden Russian death syndrome" or "sudden oligarch death syndrome", a play on sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.[6] A number of them died by falling from heights, including possible defenestrations.[7]
Some commentators ruled out suicides or poor health.[8] Other commentators, including Fiona Hill and Mark Galeotti, are skeptical of such conspiracies.[8] They point out the deaths are not necessarily all connected, and that it is far more likely some really are suicides, and some could be killings by competing influential clans to wipe out competitors without a centralized Kremlin effort.
The suicide rate in Russia is the third-highest in the world,[8] and similar trends have been noted in 2020 about doctors who have treated COVID-19 patients falling from high windows.[8] Suicides could be further increased especially in the Russian business community due to substantial pressure from the war in Ukraine and international sanctions.[8]
According to an investigative report by Novaya Gazeta, some of the deaths may be connected to large scale accounting fraud by Gazprom executives, who may have funneled money to a network of businesses owned by friends and family members with ties to the FSB and Russian military.[13]
An Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with registration number RA-02795 crashed during a regular high-altitude flight from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.[77][78][79] Prigozhin, Utkin, and Chekalov were killed along with two Wagner veterans, two bodyguards, and the three flight staff.[80] According to Wagner Group, the plane was shot down by air defenses,[81] however according to the US government and aviation experts, the plane was downed by a bomb onboard or other sabotage.[82][83][84][85][86][81]
I never met such a cousy atmosphere as in russian wooden windows. Across the country you can find old homes weathered, bended, crumbled; but their frames to outside will be always oustanding for its handicrafts art decorations; and cared like a sacred limes. It's like a precious symbol of protection, comfort and life joy.
Russian windows are different each other.
Russian windows always let your eyes see inside.
Russian windows have more wooden carved decorations than laces on the curtains.
Russian windows bend along with the house.
Russian windows defines a complete house decoration set style.
Russian windows are often inspired by art nouveau european decorative arts.
Russian windows convert neoclassical styles on wood.
Russian windows are used as shelves for everyday objects.
Russian windows are highly decorated, even the smaller air vents.
Russian windows sometimes are huge!
Russian windows are inspired to greek decorations and shells.
Russian windows have plants outside always framing a plant pot inside.
Russian windows are a creative mix of antropomorphic elements: eyes, hearts and frog legs.
Russian windows have wooden entablatures on governative official buildings.
Russian windows bloom with hearts and lilies.
The Twitter thread came up in a discussion on the ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which earlier this month shut down 5,500 miles of fuel pipe for nearly a week, causing fuel station supply shortages throughout the country and driving up prices. The FBI said the attack was the work of DarkSide, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service offering that says it targets only large corporations.
DarkSide and other Russian-language affiliate moneymaking programs have long barred their criminal associates from installing malicious software on computers in a host of Eastern European countries, including Ukraine and Russia. This prohibition dates back to the earliest days of organized cybercrime, and it is intended to minimize scrutiny and interference from local authorities.
But is there really a downside to taking this simple, free, prophylactic approach? None that I can see, other than perhaps a sinking feeling of capitulation. The worst that could happen is that you accidentally toggle the language settings and all your menu options are in Russian.
If this happens (and the first time it does the experience may be a bit jarring) hit the Windows key and the space bar at the same time; if you have more than one language installed you will see the ability to quickly toggle from one to the other. The little box that pops up when one hits that keyboard combo looks like this:
But doing so increases the risk to their personal safety and fortunes by some non-trivial amount, said Allison Nixon, chief research officer at New York City-based cyber investigations firm Unit221B.
Nixon said if enough people do this in large numbers, it may in the short term protect some people, but more importantly in the long term it forces Russian hackers to make a choice: Risk losing legal protections, or risk losing income.
Most of Russian computers are in the same IP address space as American ones 192.168.X.X and 10.X.X.X
So, IP range check is no help. There are other localization checks that can be performed. Extra keyboard layout protection will not last long.
Some legal Russian software products offer free licenses to the users from CIS countries. One of such products asked to enter current day of the week in Russian as a part of the activation procedure. Malware might do something similar.
Active keyboard changes a lot, especially with those writing in English.
Not everybody can install russian primary language on a non-licensed Windows.
But default keyboard could be an option.
My experience with over 30 years of providing IT Tech Support for a large semiconductor company was that providing support for Macs was nearly 10X the cost & effort of both the PCs and Linux workstations.
The reason there are fewer malwares attacking Macs is because there are fewer Macs. If you were to build malware for an automobile would you build it for Chevrolet (2M sold/yr in U.S.) or for Fiat (7,000 sold/yr in U.S.)? If Mac ever became mainstream you can bet they would become the focus of most attacks.
it is not a fix, its mere a lifehack. The best fix would be to switch to GNU/Linux systems. I have never heard of ransomware on GNU/Linux distributions, and I am kind of sure that free software community will find an easy hack to stop any ransomware malware from installing on GNU/Linux systems.
Ransomware does not require bugs or even elevated permissions. Anything that the user has access to do (edit or remove files that are important to them), an attack can get them to do in a more malicious way. I built a proof-of-concept malware using PHP that was detected and stopped by almost no endpoint protection. The ones that did stop it were circumvented in about 15 minutes. Some of the sophisticated parts of attacks like killing shadow copies on a Windows computer were defended but the point is that anything a user can do, an attacker can exploit. Thats a pretty big surface area.
A better way to check where the PC is located is to look at the timezone settings. I suspect nearly every one runs there PC with the timezone set to their current location, even in CIS countries. I also think not many people in the West would want to change their timezone to a CIS country timezone in order to defeat malware either.
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