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Because attribution of cyber-attacks is a guessing game. One that is easily manipulated. Together with wide-open networks, shitty endpoint security and missing
by c00lio 3y ago
Because attribution of cyber-attacks is a guessing game. One that is easily manipulated.
Together with wide-open networks, shitty endpoint security and missing abuse handling in Eastern countries, they could be originators or proxies for an attack. It isn't really possible to distinguish those, there can be hints, but those hints might as well be planted.
So all the "China is attacking us" panic might still be "Western criminals are attacking us, China is just helping through their gross negligence".
- bollos 3y agoThrows me back to the Olympic Destroyer malware from 2018 and all the layers of red herrings that were stuffed into it.
- MaxPengwing 3y agoYou got my curiosity, where mIght I find more info on this? It sounds really interesting.
- Geezus_42 3y agoDarknet Diaries has an episode on it.
- bollos 3y agoAs someone else already mentioned, there's a Darknet Diaries episode about it. There's also a Wired [0] piece about it from Andy Greenberg who also adopted it into his (in my opinion) excellent book Sandworm: about how the Kremlin slowly got more and more dangerous in terms of cyber warfare capabilities. [0]. https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destroyer-cyberattack/ https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destr...
- willcipriano 3y ago[flagged]
- thumbuddy 3y agoRemember how the RNC/GOP was hacked by Russia at the same time and how immediately after they went full fascist to the point where GOP senators were hand delivering notes to Putin on July fourth? Pepperidge farms remembers
- willcipriano 3y agoI remember the folks that took a redacted report from a private firm as sufficient evidence to create a international incident claiming that, however I doubt the standards of evidence used to reach that conclusion.
- thumbuddy 3y agoYea I remember reading similarly. I was just thinking about how the Mueller report lead to the indictments of dozens of Russian agents and a couple trump advisers. Shortly after the whole RNC and DNC hacks.
- willcipriano 3y agoAnd then the Durham report proved that the majority of Mullers findings was based on evidence that was known to be fabricated at the time. https://www.wsj.com/articles/special-counsel-john-durham-report-robert-mueller-donald-trump-russia-collusion-bf7023c8 https://www.wsj.com/articles/special-counsel-john-durham-rep... When was the RNC leak?
- thumbuddy 3y agoPeople are in jail from the Mueller report. Not sure what to say about it otherwise. https://time.com/5556331/mueller-investigation-indictments-guilty-pleas/ https://time.com/5556331/mueller-investigation-indictments-g... The rnc and GOP have been hacked many times by Russia. Google away...