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Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

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Re: Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

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If your threat model includes nation states, you are outgunned. A nation state can probably buy the building across the street if that's the value of hacking your system. Of course there are almost certainly cheaper options,but that's the level of time and budget you are up against...teams of motivated and well resourced experienced professionals working against you full time.

Why is this always the top comment lol.

Do you leave your door unlocked, because "if your threat model involves crowbars, you are outgunned"?

Ironic that this comment was posted (yet again), because this time it seems like the hackers used the same "guns" as everyone else.

What's interesting is that wifi is so hackable, when anyone with any cryptography knowledge knows that it needn't be. But it seems to me that we're all using less-than-secure locks so that the "good guys" can get in if needed.

Re: Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

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This isn’t entirely novel. I did some grey verging on black hat work a few years back. Target was in a place that putting boots on the ground would have been a challenge, and highly conspicuous. We targeted the tenant a floor below them. Got in through a networked fax machine. Hijacked an AP, used that to bruteforce our way in upstairs. I think I might have been working for Russian intelligence, retrospectively. The…

Careful buddy, if you worked for who you think then the NDA is STRONGLY enforceable by some guys breaking into your house in the middle of the night... stay frosty

Oh, I speak freely as they would have a very hard time finding me these days, and I already pissed them off almightily on my way out the door with a bag of misbegotten loot, and that was a few years ago, and my brains have yet to be ventilated.
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