SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks

Re:SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks by dralley on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:30PM (#25639184)

>There's a big difference between 250 and 18000.

18,000 networks were backdoored, but the Russians only chose to actively attack ~250 of the most "interesting" targets. Avoiding detection for as long as possible was deemed more important than e.g. exfiltrating data from cancer clinics in Indiana.

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Re:SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks by dylan604 on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:27PM (#25639703)

the old rule in espianoge is that some times the source is more important than the information, where using the information from the source reveals the source which means the source is no longer useful. whether that's a spy that gets jailed/killed or a patch applied to a vuln.

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Re:SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks by CrankyBear on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:03PM (#25639522)

250 that we know of.

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