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That's not the worst part. The worst part is the attacker getting the data. The slight chance that while you're infected you also happen to be on a public wifi
by guelo 7y ago
That's not the worst part. The worst part is the attacker getting the data. The slight chance that while you're infected you also happen to be on a public wifi in the same room at the same time as a random opportunistic hacker, or that an ISP employee is risking their job by combing through petabytes of transient customer data, is much less concerning.
- cryptozeus 7y agoAttacker already got the data http or https. But by publishing over http...other sniffers of public traffic also get your data.
- hooch 7y agoMaybe just to get data broadcasted is the goal, and having that reaching a centralised server is not the primary goal; imagine an operational theatre.
- dannyw 7y agoThis makes sense if a state level actor, with global network visibility (including playback capabilities, aka XKEYSCORE and TEMPORA) is behind it. Even if a C&C server is taken down, they would still be able to persist the data.