It's always a nation state. A great way to increase defence budgets and not have to admit incompetence.
By state 'sponsored' it can mean many things, even if the countries just let them be and some officials get bribed to not do anything.
In this case it was in Syria, which is a fundamental mess, but the fact that it was Russian groups and they have military presence there, it is enough to put it 'state sponsored' label...
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Edit: This was a purely commercial/blackmail type of thing, so I doubt it was the Russian government/Putin involved directly, but it could just be a side hustle of the same people that do try to hack government targets.
If they have the facilities and the state protection, might as well make some money on the side.
greed comes worse from the other side.
I would not trust any declaration of “state sponsored hack” and it is a distinction that doesn't really matter but causes more harm than good
...wow. you're aware that "obsolete tech" is what basically all critical infrastructure uses, right? The world is bigger than FAANG webapps...
>...wow. you're aware that "obsolete tech" is what basically all critical infrastructure uses, right? The world is bigger than FAANG webapps...
Wow! 2010 called. They want their ideas about what makes the world go back.[0]
That's just crazy talk. Everyone knows that hardware has been completely deprecated. It's all clouds. Mostly cumulo-nimbus, in fact.
Power plants, chip fabs, heavy machinery, machine tools, factory automation and logistics systems are completely obsolete and never, ever used anymore.
Because there's cloudiness, hardware is just a waste of money and space, which is why we can stack 600MB of js libraries on top of each other so we can have the browser render an opaque 40x40px box.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
(Please refer to the above link reference to resolve any confusion.)
What would make that 600MB of javascript secure would be to auto-generate a random CPU architecture and recompile your server to run on it!
FORBORNE PENDLETON PIEDMONT
They all seem to suggest some level of breakthrough with regards to cryptography, including public key cryptography.
Guaranteed nobody will come looking for me.
Sincerely yours,
Evil mastermind
The DPR was caught in part from a post on Stack Overflow where he was asking a question unique to his platform. Imagine how hard it would be to write the Flame malware. Now imagine the NSA and CIA hunting for traces afterword. Building that malware required deep information on many system that would likely require badges or intensive social engineering to access, both of which leave traces. Do you really think you could hide?
I'm an expert (of sorts) and I'm not sure that I could buy drugs on the dark web 100% securely if those resources were hunting me.
And I don't mean computer viruses.
It always just a matter of spending a few more billions in tax payer money, you see the program/agency/task/what ever would have work perfectly if we just spend more money