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> " if the attackers know what they are doing it actually is impossible" Every attacker makes mistakes. It's not a matter of "knowing what they're doing". They
by strictnein 8y ago
> " if the attackers know what they are doing it actually is impossible"
Every attacker makes mistakes. It's not a matter of "knowing what they're doing". They're human.
- freeflight 8y agoIf we are really talking about organized state sponsored hacking, then the variable of human error is usually minimized trough redundancies and oversight. Unless you want to suggest that on one hand they are sophisticated enough to infiltrate all kinds of hardened systems, but still dumb enough to let themselves get caught in the act while doing so/leaving evidence behind pointing straight back at them. That's why the vast majority of cyber attribution is rarely based on actual technical evidence, but rather on cui bono assumptions and by ascribing certain tools as exclusively used by certain actors. And because none of this a secret, it's a pretty easy to exploit methodology [0]. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/wikileaks-releases-code-that-could-unmask-cia-hacking-operations/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/wikil...
- paulie_a 8y agoThe Australians did exactly that, some binary wasn't scrubbed and pointed directly to their HQ