It is not quite accurate to say the cyber-attack against the British Library took place on 28 October 2023. Rhysida, the hacker gang that orchestrated it and is thought to be Russian, had probably been creeping undetected through the digital territories of the library for months, Enrico Mariconti, a lecturer in security and crime science at UCL, told me.
Once it broke into the library’s virtual private network (VPN) – which allows employees to access its network
