After seeing how poor a job they do on their STIGs for DoD, hopefully it's a different team working on this because, otherwise, it will not end well....
US military spies: We'll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries
The US Defense Intelligence Agency has vowed to capture enemy malware, study and customize it, and then turn the software nasties on their creators. Speaking at the US Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) conference in Missouri on Monday, the head of the agency Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart told …
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 13:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
Flawed premise?
There seems to be a chain of flawed premise behind the thinking of the DoD in that it seems to feel unquestionably self-assured that a) it can improve any strand of malware, b) it can correctly identify its source and c) the people to whom they bounce the modified malware back will have not used any of the knowledge they employed to create the malware to set up appropriate defences against it.
The Dod, or at least the part of it represented by the Lieutenant General named in the article, seems to be in a state of delusion.
In the history of the world, of course, deluded people with powerful weapons have never been a problem...
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 02:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Right back at ya...
So if everyone else does this, it is fine for all those hacking tools leaked from the NSA and the CIA (which were used against other nations) to target the USA and therefore the US should just accept it and not retaliate any further... I struggle to imagine a time, where someone checks the source code of the malware and says "oh, that had code that originally came from our nation, let's just let this go, they must have repurposed it and used it against us, which is only fair".
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 03:21 GMT Brad Ackerman
I'd have gone with the Threatbutt map; it also comes with pew-pew noises.
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 05:46 GMT Nolveys
Dear whoever you are,
We see that you have attacked us with malware. It was bloated, the stealth sucked and the payload was buggy as hell. We have fixed all of those issues for you and have provided you with the new and vastly improved version. Please try again.
Hugs and kisses,
The Federal Department Of Tax Disposal
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 07:35 GMT amanfromMars 1
Bullshit at its rankest
Stewart said that the traditional stance of the US has been defensive:
It's the USAmerican Way ....... live virtually in a dream world where nothing is real, and that aint no fiction and an undeniable fact which is now causing all manner of problems for ITs truth deniers.
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 16:17 GMT amanfromMars 1
Cuckolds R Us when Future Brains are not Stealthily InterNetworking Deadheads?
Does anyone else find it most odd, and extremely disappointing if they be not ACTive APT Field Able and Enabled, that Blighty Virtual Forces or the likes of GCHQ and/or the National Cyber Security Centre and/or even Renegade Rogue Disenchanted Ex Special Forces, are practically never cited as being responsible for anything mainstream media news worthy and globally disruptive? Have they lost the knack of leading multiple fronts from the sublime comfort of their clubs to the rear with every Tom, Dick and Harry chasing ghosts to slay for no effective purpose?
If Maybot Flies and Conservative Flash Harrys are samples of the best that the nation has to offer, then is serial defeat in every arena just desserts for all jumping through their crazy hoops and giving credence to anything they might wish the media to portray and say as being in any way important at all when it clearly isn't.