Comment on Kaspersky reveals ‘elegant’ malware resembling NSA code

KnightontheSun@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  pcmag.com/…/powerful-malware-disguised-as-crypto-…

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  • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you, but I meant I don’t trust Kapersky themselves.

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    • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used to use Kaspersky but I stopped about 10 years ago or so. I get why people don’t trust having that software on their computers but personally I don’t distrust their public reports (which is different from trust obviously). Just because I feel like other more technically minded people are going to look into this and there will be a confirmation or a denial eventually.

      I’ve read about code from Stuxnet being used in other worms so it didn’t surprise me that this is possible. I’m not a cyber security expert so it could all be boring and I wouldn’t know the difference. This is some rather technical stuff.

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      • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Anything is possible and it certainly seems more difficult to find truth these days, but I appreciate you posting.

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    • CyberDine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nor should you, if you’re American

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• jvisick@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s the report on this malware: securelist.com/…/110903/

  It doesn’t specifically attribute this to the NSA, and it’s very hard to definitively say who created what malware anyways.

  That being said, if you read through the report, the details on this really scream “state actor” most probably. The level of modularity, the infrastructure of the C2 server, and the detailed & flexible spying capabilities all point to some government agency more than anything else.

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