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I wonder how long until a real war is started as a result of a cyber attack. Unfortunately, I think it is only a matter of time.
Once that happens, then there will be a cyber warfare treaty.
In reply to: Re: Government-grade? Is that a new explanation on criminal intent by governments?
That makes sense.. the evasion/rootkit technique is very sophisticated (nation-state) but the payloads weren't (organized crime trying to make money). We see similar things at Invincea as part of our "malware genome"...
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That could be an idea, ofcourse, but my opinion, that I really wanted to point out, is that many more governements than people are aware of, are in fact dealing in criminal activity! And it seem like the us-governement,...
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That is unlikely to happen. Governments will always secretively want to know what goes on in other governments or organizations. Those clandestine activities have been happening ever since there were governments, so don't...
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I guess another possibility would be that they somehow got a sample and reverse-engineered it...but it's probably more likely they got it under the table somehow.
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@Kelly Yeah, I keep thinking that the criminals have it because the government agents gave it to them. It seems like an awfully cynical viewpoint, but governments make deals with criminals all the time.
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@ArneN455 "Government criminal-ware is being spread to other criminals. What about NOT making it in the first place?" That's a fair question. Do you think we need to have some kind of arms treaty that applies to the...
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Government criminal-ware is being spread to other criminals. What about NOT making it in the first place? ALL those malwares are made with criminal intention, government, or not government!
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So really, since it is so difficult to detect, the most effective way to combat this is through effective awareness training. After all, isn't a user's insecure practice the way malware enters a system in the first place...
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Interesting. I think the key is how they got hold of it.
In reply to: Re: from which nation-state?
Kelly, the evidence points to Russia. We don't know how cyber crimminals got a hold of it.
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It would be really interesting to know which nation-state initially had this malware, and how this gang got the malware.
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