Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers

Re:Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers by sbarre on Monday March 12, 2018 @04:39PM (#16571372)

> Unless the targeted individuals were not just "individuals", but individuals who were prominent in certain organizations...

I have to assume that's absolutely the case here. I didn't read this as "100 random individuals" being infected.

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Re:Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers by AnimalMuppet on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:26PM (#16571812)

I didn't either. I read it as "activists", and on re-reading, I can't see where I got that. The actual targets could be a lot more important than that...

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Re:Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers by sbarre on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:27PM (#16572260)

Yeah this kind of APT work seems like it would be targeted at high-value individuals, for either political or economic espionage..

So leaders of industry or government, etc..

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