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Unless the US Military is being extremely careless, attribution of malware is extremely difficult and, aside from leaks, almost impossible to accurately attribu
by justinjlynn 9y ago
Unless the US Military is being extremely careless, attribution of malware is extremely difficult and, aside from leaks, almost impossible to accurately attribute.
- unchocked 9y agoA large security company or a nation state can absolutely attribute malware originating from nation-states (APTs) with a high degree of confidence. We are not talking about some recombinant script kiddie malware: Slingshot is attributable, Stuxnet was attributable, the DNC penetration was attributable. Nation-states with mature cyberwarfare capabilities, and their appendages such as Kaspersky, are routinely capable of identifying the authors of novel malware.