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Re:Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise by simulator5g on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:00PM (#47622458)
That's the reality of modern war. Many countries are likely planting malware on a wide scale. You can't even really prove where an attack originated from, so uninvolved countries would also be smart to take advantage of the current conflict. Like if you primarily wrote German, you would translate your malware to Chinese, Farsi, English, or Hebrew, and take other steps to make it appear to come from one of those warring countries. Any country who was making a long term plan involving malware would likely do it around this time.
Re:Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise by altmanaltman on Friday April 03, 2026 @01:56AM (#47623591)
You can write code in Chinese and Farsi?
Re:Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise by axitanull on Friday April 03, 2026 @02:03AM (#47623634)
You can deliberately put comments and descriptions using those language.
Re:Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise by simulator5g on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:52PM (#47640803)
Yes and there have been documented cases of translated malware. Sometimes its done a little sloppily and there is other evidence that points to the origin being in another country that doesn't speak the language its written in. But even then, you can't really prove they didn't just use a residential VPN or whatever.