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If your company just got pwned, you'll probably be thankful to have an excuse to tell your investors that it was a Russian/etc "state actor" and therefore they
by lupusreal 2y ago
If your company just got pwned, you'll probably be thankful to have an excuse to tell your investors that it was a Russian/etc "state actor" and therefore they should feel sympathy for you being the victim of a foe that far outclasses your assuredly reasonable and competent security measures.
Looks a lot better than getting pwned by some jackass American teenager. So if the attack came from a Russian IP, or used some Cyrillic characters or something like that, there's a "face saving" incentive to take that probable misdirection at face value.
- pphysch 2y agoThis is right. So many incentives are stacked in favor of making false attributions, specifically to enemy state actors: - real attacker doesn't want to get caught - victim doesn't want to admit being pwned by a script kiddy or petty criminal - military-industrial complex needs foreign threat inflation to stay in business - media loves the intrigue The pushback would come from the foreign state being falsely slandered, but they never get a say anyways.
- ANewFormation 2y agosolarwinds123