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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by thesimp on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:58PM (#19629183)
It is much to easy to blame Windows for everything. If this is another TRITON level attack then it did not matter what operating system is used, the attackers would have come in anyway. With enough resources you can break anything.

Check out the DEFCON 2018 talk "Through the Eyes of the Attacker" to see to what lengths the TRITON attackers went. These guys were dumping eeproms from boards running obscure MIPS processors and were looking at raw ethernet packets in Wireshark and flipping bits in the packets to see what would happen. That their command&control was running on Windows was just coincidence.

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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by varjag on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:30AM (#19710819)
> With enough resources you can break anything.

Very few adversaries have enough resources to break anything. The threshold for roughing up a Windows setup is the lowest in the industry.

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