Not a “Sophisticated Cyber Attack” 🤣
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The term “sophisticated cyber attack” is said after a data breach to excuse a company for not being able to defend against a nation state attack. But in reality they got caught out by some script kiddie. I’m taking a look at some actual Nation state examples, and attackers initially said to be sophisticated but later found to be a simple management failure.
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Nation-State APTs Target U.S. Utilities With Dangerous Malware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
CLEARED FOR RELEASE: We thwarted an attempted Hamas cyber offensive against Israeli targets. Following our successful cyber defensive operation, we targeted a building where the Hamas cyber operatives work.
HamasCyberHQ.exe has been removed. pic.twitter.com/AhgKjiOqS7
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 5, 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
British Airways (BA)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45440850
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48905907
Carphone warehouse
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/08/carphone-warehouse-cyber-attack-24m-customers-data-feared-accessed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42637820
Michaels Stores
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/michaels-breach-how-fraudsters-pulled-off-a-8696
Newegg
https://www.pcgamer.com/hackers-installed-sophisticated-malware-on-neweggs-servers-to-steal-customer-data/
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/19/newegg-credit-card-data-breach/
TalkTalk
https://www.techworld.com/security/talktalk-beyond-guide-worst-data-breach-excuses-of-2015-3628228/
http://web.archive.org/web/20151022211310/http://help2.talktalk.co.uk/oct22incident
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37990246
Hacked by a teenager or foreign spy? FireEye CEO urges governments to attribute state cyber attacks
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nation-state-hacker-or-script-kiddie-why-is-pointing-blame-so-difficult/
Wallpaper: https://www.pling.com/s/Antiques/p/1316958/
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