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We're Putin our foot down! DHS, FBI blame Russia for ongoing infrastructure hacks

Claptrap314 Silver badge

One presumes that they are not simply looking at text stings in the code & deciding where it came from based on that. At a minimum, they can intercept packets & see where they are headed. The next step is to penetrate the shell and see where that server is getting orders/sending information. And figure out if these communications are the real path, or if the "shell" is in fact the terminus.

It took them a year and a half to reach this conclusion because they actually had to do work.

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