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My current hypothesis is that the attacker(s) deliberately chose a Chinese-sounding name to make people jump to conclusions. A sophisticated state actor would b
by kijin 3y ago
My current hypothesis is that the attacker(s) deliberately chose a Chinese-sounding name to make people jump to conclusions. A sophisticated state actor would be no stranger to making their actions look like somebody else's.
Or maybe they actually are Chinese, and want me to believe the sentence above. :)
- lodovic 3y agoIndeed - seeing the level of sophistication and long term thinking behind this attack, it seems everything about it was planned meticulously, including usernames, attack vectors, communication with the community, and when to commit the parts of the exploit. There's probably a full team of people behind it and attributing it to China because of the username may be too quick.