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I 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 reache
by samstave 6y ago
I 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.