Re:TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector
by freeflight on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:50AM
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What I find much more crazy is how this is made out as "state-sponsored hacking", even tho the article doesn't mention with a single sentence who or what the attackers are.
In that context instantly jumping to "state-sponsored!" strikes me not only as a needless, but particularly dangerous escalation.
It's like people forget that "cyber" is most of all asymmetrical and attribution is usually more of a guessing game than an exact science.
Yet nearly every larger hack is very quickly labeled as some kind of "state sponsored offense!" to serve foreign policy narratives, and most of all; Excuse the incompetence that often enabled such attacks in the very first place.
In that context instantly jumping to "state-sponsored!" strikes me not only as a needless, but particularly dangerous escalation.
It's like people forget that "cyber" is most of all asymmetrical and attribution is usually more of a guessing game than an exact science.
Yet nearly every larger hack is very quickly labeled as some kind of "state sponsored offense!" to serve foreign policy narratives, and most of all; Excuse the incompetence that often enabled such attacks in the very first place.