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by simulator5g 79 days ago
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.
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You can write code in Chinese and Farsi?
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.
You can deliberately put comments and descriptions using those language.