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What the heck does "nation-state activity" means?

jaclaz 9y ago
>What the heck does "nation-state activity" means? That looks hard enough to understand, but additionally it is "potential".
cityhall 9y ago
Russia
- Alupis 9y ago
  > Russia Is that a new way of saying "NSA"? All joking aside... this is likely the tail-end result of the Shadow Brokers leak coupled with the recently-used exploits in the failed crypto-locker variant "Wanna Cry".
sp332 9y ago
It means governments are exploiting the OS instead of random hackers.
gruez 9y ago
"Activity" = codename for hacking
my123 9y ago
> we have taken action to provide additional critical security updates to address vulnerabilities that are at heightened risk of exploitation due to past nation-state activity and disclosures. It's state sponsored hacking or hoarding of vulnerabilities.
Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 9y ago
Presumably it's another case where an intelligence agency lost control of an exploit they developed, the same thing that happened with WannaCry.
daveloyall 9y ago
The page links here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687/microsoft-security-advisory-4025685-guidance-for-older-platforms https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687/microsoft-s... ...which mentions some MSyy-nnn numbers, some of which have been mentioned on HN before.
1001101 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack#Attribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack#Att...
kpil 9y ago
Interesting question. "Nation" is really the people, not the country or the state, and the reason it's mixed up to the point of having reached the dictionaries, is the strong nation-states that have been founded in Europe the last few hundred years. "State" is the organisation that governs a country or region, and in extension all it's concerns. Activity means hacking. So... a government organisation from a country of ethnically and culturally distinct people are hacking shit.

>What the heck does "nation-state activity" means? That looks hard enough to understand, but additionally it is "potential".

cityhall 9y ago

Russia

Alupis 9y ago
> Russia Is that a new way of saying "NSA"? All joking aside... this is likely the tail-end result of the Shadow Brokers leak coupled with the recently-used exploits in the failed crypto-locker variant "Wanna Cry".

sp332 9y ago

It means governments are exploiting the OS instead of random hackers.

gruez 9y ago

"Activity" = codename for hacking

my123 9y ago

> we have taken action to provide additional critical security updates to address vulnerabilities that are at heightened risk of exploitation due to past nation-state activity and disclosures. It's state sponsored hacking or hoarding of vulnerabilities.

Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 9y ago

Presumably it's another case where an intelligence agency lost control of an exploit they developed, the same thing that happened with WannaCry.

daveloyall 9y ago

The page links here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687/microsoft-security-advisory-4025685-guidance-for-older-platforms https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687/microsoft-s... ...which mentions some MSyy-nnn numbers, some of which have been mentioned on HN before.

1001101 9y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack#Attribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack#Att...

kpil 9y ago

Interesting question. "Nation" is really the people, not the country or the state, and the reason it's mixed up to the point of having reached the dictionaries, is the strong nation-states that have been founded in Europe the last few hundred years. "State" is the organisation that governs a country or region, and in extension all it's concerns. Activity means hacking. So... a government organisation from a country of ethnically and culturally distinct people are hacking shit.