Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack

Re:Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack by balls187 on Friday May 05, 2017 @07:47PM (#14277681)

> The problem is beyond rote security at this point. We're in the realm of talented, well financed threat actors with databases of 0days.

State actors

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Re:Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack by fixxer on Friday May 05, 2017 @07:50PM (#14277692)

I think that is likely the case, but I don't know if that is an exclusive thing anymore. A lot of what I read about reminds me of 1970s sponsorship of various terror entities and revolutionaries.

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Re:Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack by walrus01 on Friday May 05, 2017 @07:52PM (#14277707)

From a nation state actor standpoint it is probably a lot cheaper to pay gobs of money to a half-dozen antisocial young black hat types (that have been messing around with linux since age 12 in their bedroom in belarus), than to fund the PLO.

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Re:Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack by fixxer on Friday May 05, 2017 @07:55PM (#14277729)

Yep, and if you look at the carders in Russia, they have some very close ties with government. Perfect infrastructure for this shit.

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