[Craighead]

Reminder, HN, you all live in the real world. Chinese state sponsored cyber threat actors use orb networks that are primarily made via strung together off the shelf routers. The literal companies that build and maintain these ORB networks also resell this capability to Russian military intelligence and cyber threat actors.

[rglover]

Was unfamiliar with orb networks. This [1] is a damn clever attack vector.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/chi...

[mindslight]

They just made up a fancy term for the age old proxy... Basically lifting the longstanding criticism of their "attribution" into their realm of bespoke nouns as if it's something exceptional.

(I also found it extra annoying as my current working expansion of ORB is O-Ring Boss)

[blitzar]

I am interested in hearing more about the US state sponsored cyber threat actors

[Craighead]

Fast16, stuxnet, apt-c-40

[hulitu]

cisco aka "yet another backdoor"