If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might be a CIA hacker

Re:If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might b... by CWuestefeld on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:28PM (#14090338)

Symantec had already concluded that Longhorn was a group based in North America. That was partly based on the American time zones they saw, but also on the finding that Longhorn primarily targeted devices in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East—and seemed particularly averse to American computers.

Now the CIA is going to claim that for national security reasons, they're going to have to hack American computers too.

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Re:If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might b... by beager on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:22PM (#14091497)

Humor aside, one wonders how much increased communication could facilitate common malware usage between the CIA, NSA, etc. If some common malware were developed and distributed agnostic to foreign or domestic targets, it could be a conduit for other, more targeted software to be deployed, and otherwise not appear, based on detection, to specifically target foreign or domestic machines.

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Re:If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might b... by nigifabio on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:49PM (#14091759)

Couple of hours and if you move south in Europe it could be even longer

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