{"id":909,"date":"2026-02-02T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=909"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:57:59","slug":"how-the-kgb-discovered-computer-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/how-the-kgb-discovered-computer-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"How the KGB Discovered Computer Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1989 internal memo warned the Soviet security apparatus about a new threat: malicious software that was spreading among users across the USSR and even within the KGB itself. In this post I will review an archival KGB document on computer viruses available through the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center. It\u2019s 10-page long, so I will not translate the whole thing but rather summarize its content, render selected fragments into English, provide some context based on other sources, and share my reflections.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/how-the-kgb-discovered-computer-viruses\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fromcyberia.substack.com\/p\/how-the-kgb-discovered-computer-viruses\">How the KGB Discovered Computer Viruses &#8211; by Oleg Shakirov<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: How the KGB Discovered Computer Viruses<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1989 internal memo warned the Soviet security apparatus about a new threat: malicious software that was spreading among users across the USSR and even within the KGB itself. In this post I will review an archival KGB document on computer viruses available through the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[72,9],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-vulnerability","tag-72","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}