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Novel protocol usage gives off that kind of smell too.
by BLKNSLVR 3y ago
Novel protocol usage gives off that kind of smell too.
- RCitronsBroker 3y agooh yes, it does. Good catch. False-Flagging your actions as commercially motivated doesn’t strike me as a hard to construct alibi, either. Certainly not beyond the scope of sophisticated, state aligned actors, except maybe the north-Koreans, that guardians of peace Spiel was entertaining tho. This awakens memories of GCHQ attacks on Belgian(?) telecom providers; they really are inherent gold mines for dragnet surveillance, stealing database, offensive cyberattacks and probably lots more. There’s a reason Huawei is subsidized for offering cheap 5g infrastructure to international clients, it’s a real nice thing to have backdoors to. Not saying the west is much better in this regard, Cisco has been more than compliant in similar shenanigans just to name one.
- fullspectrumdev 3y ago“Using weird protocols” for C&C is old hat for hackers tbh. Well over a decade ago after reading an RFC I switched all my backdoors to use SCTP - a protocol many of my peers had never fucking heard of - and found it evaded a shit tonne of IDS/firewall products.