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"According to Sucuri researchers who investigated the case to figure out the actors’ goal, threat actors used the backdoor to redirect visitors to malware-dropp
by hirundo 5y ago
"According to Sucuri researchers who investigated the case to figure out the actors’ goal, threat actors used the backdoor to redirect visitors to malware-dropping and scam sites. Therefore, the campaign wasn’t very sophisticated."
"Threat actor" and "supply chain attack" sound like attempts to elevate a crime into terrorism. As if their intent was to keep food off of the shelves rather than theft and fraud. Aren't those bad enough?
- MathMonkeyMan 5y agoPolicing language helps with marketing. I'm not saying I like it, but what is the alternative? "Some randos with domain knowledge and free time made the system do something other than what its designers intended, and now are hoping that distracted or gullible users will get fooled into scams"?
- lolinder 5y agoBoth of those terms are technical terms with specific meanings, and they're used correctly here. It's no more intended to scaremonger than when a medical journal uses fancy words for different body parts... it's just how cybersecurity people talk. Threat actor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_actor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_actor Supply chain attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack