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White-Hats Go Rogue, Attack Financial Institutions
- divanvisagie 8y agoThe "Russian hacker" thing has become some sort of a meme, or even a joke. It seems to me there would be incentive for a non-Russian to impersonate one in order to throw out a red herring.
- kurthr 8y agoBecause attacking Russian banks, siphoning funds through Russian ATMs, using commands in Russian, with (presumably sourceless) assembly modified APT128 exploits is a red herring? Sometimes a (white) hat is just a (black) hat.
- originalsimba 8y agoWhite hat hackers do not "go rogue". If a hacker uses their skills for crime they are by definition, not "White hat". The problem here is the author doesn't understand this simple truth, and therefor is unqualified to write about the topic at all, as far as I'm concerned.
- lixtra 8y agoI'm always stunned by the confidence with which forensic analysts state their conclusions (or is it just the journalists portraying them?). For other professions (doctors, archaeologists, even mathematics if you think of the crisis in the early 20th century) time has showed us that such confidence is not appropriate and the interpretation of the facts can change considerably.
- ccnafr 8y agoJust because you can reverse engineer a binary that doesn't mean you work in cyber-sec. Just saying.