[c00lio]

Because attribution of cyber-attacks is a guessing game. One that is easily manipulated.

Together with wide-open networks, shitty endpoint security and missing abuse handling in Eastern countries, they could be originators or proxies for an attack. It isn't really possible to distinguish those, there can be hints, but those hints might as well be planted.

So all the "China is attacking us" panic might still be "Western criminals are attacking us, China is just helping through their gross negligence".

[bollos]

Throws me back to the Olympic Destroyer malware from 2018 and all the layers of red herrings that were stuffed into it.

[MaxPengwing]

You got my curiosity, where mIght I find more info on this? It sounds really interesting.

[bollos]

As someone else already mentioned, there's a Darknet Diaries episode about it. There's also a Wired [0] piece about it from Andy Greenberg who also adopted it into his (in my opinion) excellent book Sandworm: about how the Kremlin slowly got more and more dangerous in terms of cyber warfare capabilities.

[0]. https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destr...

[Geezus_42]

Darknet Diaries has an episode on it.