Yeah I also don’t think it’s from a state sponsored hacking group. They should be paranoid enough to not upload their training materials to servers outside thei

Yeah I also don’t think it’s from a state sponsored hacking group. They should be paranoid enough to not upload their training materials to servers outside their network. Maybe it’s just an average unethical hacking workshop. Perhaps if they were positive that it’s from a state sponsored group, IBM would not go public about it until NSA take maximum advantage from these information. But the tactics explained there aren’t necessary ineffective. You can build an army of online soldiers that aren’t really hackers or capable of doing anything complicated. They just need to know enough to help your hackers with data gathering and phishing. So they can scale up their operations.