This a common take among the uninitiated and certain individuals in the "security community". Lots of people only witness bots breaking into sandboxes and insta

This a common take among the uninitiated and certain individuals in the "security community". Lots of people only witness bots breaking into sandboxes and installing bitcoin miners and then think they've seen the entirety of computer security. Targeted, sophisticated, nation-state threats are real and have been documented in the FLAME, DUQU, DARKHOTELs of the world. Supply-chain attacks are not new either, Juniper was compromised 4 years ago and backdoored into their firmware, NOTPETYA compromised a legitimate accounting software company, and ransomware has been delivering through MSPs for quite some time. Professionals look at indicators posted and techniques leveraged and come to their own conclusions. This is not standard malware. This was not a script kiddie.