Australian Political Parties Hit by 'State Actor' Hack

bbc.com

11 pointsLinuxBender3 comments

How do they ever know it is a state actor? It always seemed to me that a sophisticated attack should be fairly untraceable? but then it always seems that they always know where it is from (or at least, "state actor"), is that mainly based on who has motive or are there more certain clues and traces that are always left, like the muddy footprints leading to the border?

The hackers have their publicist deflect attention from them while also advertising that there may be information for sell on Oasis

It also helps the victim as it is less embarrassing to say a state actor has done it

It still works, nobody is asking the correct questions, it requires disagreeing with your friend’s favorite politicians and intelligence agencies while they remain oblivious to the technological limitations in finding the culprit

So what we have here is a vibrant marketplace

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