Re:Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools
by empath75 on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:56PM
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Doesn't necessarily have to be instigation -- could just be misdirection. If you're targeting Russians, then making malware that looks like Russian hackers seems like a no brainer, if you don't want to attract attention from intelligence services.
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Re:Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools
by freeflight on Friday March 31, 2017 @04:36PM
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Especially when you, or a partner service of yours, has access to compromised servers from that region to spread said malware from a server that can be attributed to "the bad guys™".
Like it's the case with the NSA: http://www.networkworld.com/article/3137065/security/shadow-...