Re:Symantec CEO says source code reviews by foreign states p...
by CamelCaseName on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:04PM
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I believe the latter post (obfuscating the method of detection) over incompetence.
Don't forget that nation states also produce malware (Recall Stuxnet?) [0] and evading detection is substantially easier when you know exactly what to avoid doing.
Re:Symantec CEO says source code reviews by foreign states p...
by ryanlol on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:48PM
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Evading detection is easy if you have the slightest clue of what you're doing. Antivirus evasion simply isn't difficult enough for this to be a reasonable explanation.
Don't forget that nation states also produce malware (Recall Stuxnet?) [0] and evading detection is substantially easier when you know exactly what to avoid doing.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet