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What looks weird about it? Most Fortune 500 companies do not have bug bounties and have poor security. One was exploited using a disclosed vulnerability. This
by ringaroundthetx 9y ago
What looks weird about it?
Most Fortune 500 companies do not have bug bounties and have poor security. One was exploited using a disclosed vulnerability.
This is on the polar opposite side of the spectrum of things that would give you the idea of nation state, before ruling everything else out.
- cinquemb 9y agoHowever, it would make some sense that politically connected individuals/companies would stand benefit from any claims of national security related to such incidences in order to protect them from liability, even if the exposure to severity of such incidences were preventable to some degree. When national security claims protect your six, rational actors eventually will seek to exploit such…
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoat this point, why WOULDN'T you proxy through a server in Russia or even "just" Eastern Europe when you execute even a wordpress vulnerability A server with an IP in Russia = Russian Hackers = State Sponsored Russian Hackers = Vladimir Putin destabilizing Democracy While you are eating popcorn and have millions of dollars of cryptocurrency no questions asked.
- peterlk 9y agoWell, like I said, pure speculation, so I don't have much to back it up. Just musing