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Suggesting stuxnet's goal wasn't stealth is silly. It was so sophisticated at not being detected that it went under everyone's radar for 5+ years. Stuxnet beh
by frombody 6y ago
Suggesting stuxnet's goal wasn't stealth is silly.
It was so sophisticated at not being detected that it went under everyone's radar for 5+ years.
Stuxnet behaved in exactly the same way.. neither did anything that would be detectable unless certain criteria was met and a secondary payload sent.
- samstave 6y agoI would say that the sophistication of the Solarwinds breach is in the success of its scale, as opposed to the methods with which it used to successfully reached such scale. Stuxnet was very sophisticated to hit a relatively narrow target by comparison. So I think they are both sophisticated, but not comparing them directly.
- mike_d 6y agoStuxnet infected close to 200,000 machines, over half in Iran, before being detected. It was so extremely stealthy and well designed that it could spread widely and avoid detection while making its way to the intended targets.
- samstave 6y agoI didn't know that part - that incredible. I would love to know how many machines got hit by SOlarwinds - however, its not about the machines - its about the value of the data it slurped... So even if it was one exchange server, with 10,000 treasury/nsa/whatever accounts, that one machines intel value is quite high.