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>There's a big difference between 250 and 18000. 18,000 networks were backdoored, but the Russians only chose to actively attack ~250 of the most "interesting"
by dralley 6y ago
>There's a big difference between 250 and 18000.
18,000 networks were backdoored, but the Russians only chose to actively attack ~250 of the most "interesting" targets. Avoiding detection for as long as possible was deemed more important than e.g. exfiltrating data from cancer clinics in Indiana.
- CrankyBear 6y ago250 that we know of.
- dylan604 6y agothe old rule in espianoge is that some times the source is more important than the information, where using the information from the source reveals the source which means the source is no longer useful. whether that's a spy that gets jailed/killed or a patch applied to a vuln.