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Stuxnet is a well understood attack from 10 years ago and its being compared with a poorly understood attack from 1 year ago. >The solar winds hack is an other
by hayst4ck 6y ago
Stuxnet is a well understood attack from 10 years ago and its being compared with a poorly understood attack from 1 year ago.
>The solar winds hack is an otherwise unremarkable trojan that spread exclusively due to the bad security measures of solarwinds.
We don't have sufficient information to say what happened after the trojan landed is unsophisticated. All we have is the idea that microsoft benefits from making their attacker seem more competent than they are, which is true.
- jjk166 6y agoSure, we could learn that they did something really impressive with the solarwinds hack that we have no idea about right now, and at that time it might be reasonable to compare it to stuxnet. The same could be said of any hack. However right now there is no evidence of sophistication anywhere near that scale, and thus calling it the largest and most sophisticated attack is clearly unwarranted, at least at this time.