Yeah if I were a blackhat I would launch all my attacks from a cheap VPS in Tehran and sprinkle random Russian gibberish throughout my binaries.
Guaranteed nobody will come looking for me.
Sincerely yours,
Evil mastermind
Guaranteed nobody will come looking for me.
Sincerely yours,
Evil mastermind
The DPR was caught in part from a post on Stack Overflow where he was asking a question unique to his platform. Imagine how hard it would be to write the Flame malware. Now imagine the NSA and CIA hunting for traces afterword. Building that malware required deep information on many system that would likely require badges or intensive social engineering to access, both of which leave traces. Do you really think you could hide?
I'm an expert (of sorts) and I'm not sure that I could buy drugs on the dark web 100% securely if those resources were hunting me.
And I don't mean computer viruses.