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Comment by AndyMcConachie | Hacker News Reader

The people involved in this have all the reason to blame China or Chinese backed groups for this, but has there been any actual evidence released that confirms this? Attribution is notoriously difficult and the only thing the public has to go on is the word of people involved.

Yet when one reads these articles it's just, "China, China, China!!!"

Anyone have a link to actual evidence?

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Usually if North Korea or Russia did it, they say North Korea or Russia did it.

Honestly, it feels like they just pick a nation based on the current narrative. They already have plenty to bash Russia with regarding the Ukraine war, and they need to keep sinophobia alive and kicking, hence China.

Plainly I have no real evidence for this, other than the constant lack of evidence for their claims, and the doubts that are cast within the infosec community when data is available.

Since OP asked for evidence, maybe we should ask for the evidence that backs your hypothesis that bad reporting about China = unsubstantiated sinophobia

we've always been at war with eurasia

Unfortunately much of the West seems to have mistaken 1984 for a manual, rather than a cautionary work of fiction.

Many times in the past, a piece of malware developed by one group has been co-opted by another group. You see a virus like Stuxnet or Mirai that's working well, you just replace the payload, or switch the command-and-control code over to yourself. Then you launch an attack, but the weapon has someone else's fingerprints all over it.

As such, even if Xi Jinping himself had stood up at the UN and claimed responsibility for a particular Windows kernel-mode rootkit, that still wouldn't be incontrovertible evidence.

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