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Similarly, I recall a strain of malware being attributed to Chinese hackers because variable names were in Chinese; then when you actually inspect the code, it'
by oefrha 6y ago
Similarly, I recall a strain of malware being attributed to Chinese hackers because variable names were in Chinese; then when you actually inspect the code, it's clearly Unicode gibberish generated by an obfuscator... That is to say, the hackers weren't even trying to be misleading, it was just a result of obfuscation reminiscent of mojibake. (I read the article on Ars Technica but don't remember enough details to find the article.)
If I ever code a hacking tool I'll throw in some Korean comments for sure.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoDo spanish instead... represent!
- darawk 6y agoDo keep in mind that intelligence services are probably not being fully transparent about how they know the source of an attack. They wouldn't want to reveal their methods, to avoid them becoming unreliable in the future.
- vkou 6y agoWhich makes it impossible to have an open, informed discussion on the subject. Instead, you get tribalist arguments over who believes which secret police.