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Indeed, especially given that it takes so little information to fool such a metric. I'd go so far as to say that it's almost guaranteed that another nation stat
by problems 9y ago
Indeed, especially given that it takes so little information to fool such a metric. I'd go so far as to say that it's almost guaranteed that another nation state or even dedicated group of individuals could feasibly do it.
There's just too little information to work off when all you have are a few binaries - with functions that can be trivially copied and modified at a binary level or reverse engineered and recompiled to similar binaries combined with some VPN IP addresses and a few assorted bits of information about attack patterns which are trivial to copy if anyone else has witnessed the attacks. I'm surprised intelligence agencies are asserting this kind of thing publicly with any level of confidence and it makes me worried that it's only going to be used to rationalize war efforts.
- gpm 9y agoIt's not clear that all the intelligence agencies have are binaries. They are in the business of collecting intelligence after all. It's completely possible for instance that they have an informant, have hacked the hackers computers, have access to very detailed network data allowing them to trace back where the malware is communicating to (not just the first hop), etc. On the flip side they also have a history of lying, and could well be motivated to say this in the absence of such reliable evidence (or even evidence suggesting something else).