Re:Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor
by nonrandomstring on Sunday February 04, 2024 @12:05PM
(#39252018)
One of the things that troubled me most in the vault 7 was the
"attribution engineering toolkit".
Some sophisticated stuff goes into not just crafting function, but
what something looks like
I am always sceptical... no, quite cynical, when a few days or hours
after an incident someone pops up and says "It was the
<Russians/Koreans/Chinese>"
Perhaps one of the most potent payloads in some hacks, perhaps even
the overarching motive, is to pin the action on someone or something.
It raises the question, how much that really matters.
Some sophisticated stuff goes into not just crafting function, but what something looks like
I am always sceptical... no, quite cynical, when a few days or hours after an incident someone pops up and says "It was the <Russians/Koreans/Chinese>"
Perhaps one of the most potent payloads in some hacks, perhaps even the overarching motive, is to pin the action on someone or something.
It raises the question, how much that really matters.