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Maybe German state itself is the actor.

by mantas 3y ago

hedora 3y ago
What state actor doesn’t understand statistical deanoymization attacks against tor? (e.g., if you single-handedly double the network traffic, then an outside observer can figure out what ingress/egress traffic is yours)
- mantas 3y ago
  Why pay attention to this if you can simply blame another state actor? And German federal government have a history for covert shitposting.
  - throwaway2037 3y ago
    And German federal government have a history for covert shitposting. Wow, I never heard this before. Can you provide some examples famous examples?
    - mantas 3y ago
      I remember there was a series of articles several years ago that German intelligence officers generated a lot activity in far-right websites. To the point that frequently it was mostly undercover „extremists“ discussing between themselves. The closest article I can quickly find is about Germany intelligence informants doing the same in meatspace though. > There was a "risk that sources of the intelligence service (Office for the Protection of the Constitution) could goad each other on to undertake bigger actions;" in other words, the system threatened to create an "incendiary effect." https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-police-document-says-informants-fuelled-far-right-extremism-a-865461.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-police-d...
tetris11 3y ago
My bet is Russia. I work in a German institution. I was recently hacked by such a botnet recently (lessons learned: use AuthorizedKeys, allow only one SSH user, proxy all http connections to a webhoster, and check your SSH and UFW logs often!) It setup a virtual environment where it downloaded some kind of Tor node and ran some sort of code that used 100% of my CPU. My guess is crypto-mining. I purged the account, deleted everything before I could do forensics, but I checked the logs for the connections and they all came from Russia.
throwaway2037 3y ago
Can you explain more?

Maybe German state itself is the actor.

by mantas 3y ago

Maybe German state itself is the actor.

What state actor doesn’t understand statistical deanoymization attacks against tor? (e.g., if you single-handedly double the network traffic, then an outside observer can figure out what ingress/egress traffic is yours)

mantas 3y ago
Why pay attention to this if you can simply blame another state actor? And German federal government have a history for covert shitposting.
- throwaway2037 3y ago
  And German federal government have a history for covert shitposting. Wow, I never heard this before. Can you provide some examples famous examples?
  - mantas 3y ago
    I remember there was a series of articles several years ago that German intelligence officers generated a lot activity in far-right websites. To the point that frequently it was mostly undercover „extremists“ discussing between themselves. The closest article I can quickly find is about Germany intelligence informants doing the same in meatspace though. > There was a "risk that sources of the intelligence service (Office for the Protection of the Constitution) could goad each other on to undertake bigger actions;" in other words, the system threatened to create an "incendiary effect." https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-police-document-says-informants-fuelled-far-right-extremism-a-865461.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-police-d...

tetris11 3y ago

My bet is Russia. I work in a German institution. I was recently hacked by such a botnet recently (lessons learned: use AuthorizedKeys, allow only one SSH user, proxy all http connections to a webhoster, and check your SSH and UFW logs often!) It setup a virtual environment where it downloaded some kind of Tor node and ran some sort of code that used 100% of my CPU. My guess is crypto-mining. I purged the account, deleted everything before I could do forensics, but I checked the logs for the connections and they all came from Russia.

throwaway2037 3y ago

Can you explain more?