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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Attribution wasn’t clear for Olympic Destroyer; it’s doubtful we’ll we ever know the specific APT responsible. Signals intelligence was used to guess at Russian attribution so we at least have a pretty good idea which country launched it.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/10/2447380/

Maybe the attribution isn't 100% (as would be expected with how the attacker masked themselves using techniques from every major nation state hacker) but Russian hackers were indeed indicted for it.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Correct. That’s what I called out with my second link. Your question was whether Gamaredon did Olympic Destroyer.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah I get what you're saying. Would be more helpful if lemmy presented more than one comment in context when replying.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was a really valuable question! There are several Russian APTs and you made me question my understanding of the attack. I had to reread some stuff to make sure I could answer you properly.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I mean I was mainly joking and shoehorning in another story I knew a bit more about, but thank you for the other links for me to read :)