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It's pretty clear that the Russian Gov is not actively prosecuting cyber criminals, provided they attack foreign competition. On top of that, there is a fair am
by jascii 5y ago
It's pretty clear that the Russian Gov is not actively prosecuting cyber criminals, provided they attack foreign competition. On top of that, there is a fair amount of forensic data indicating shared resources between hacker groups and GRU operatives.
- ryanlol 5y ago> On top of that, there is a fair amount of forensic data indicating shared resources between hacker groups and GRU operatives. Go on
- jascii 5y agoYou could start to look at the spread of Diskcoder.C across several attacks and the shared code with ExPetr and NotPetya... This forms the basis for the DOJ indictment against 6 officers of GRU Unit 74455. There is much more if you care to go down that rabbit hole.
- ryanlol 5y agoOh nonsense, that was well established to be an edit of the binary. It’s obvious the GRU didn’t have the source code. The idea that this was an example of the GRU working with criminal hackers is plainly ridiculous. https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/06/eternalpetya-yet-another-stolen-piece-package/amp/?__twitter_impression=true https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/06/eterna... Why call it diskcoder.c anyway? It’s Petya