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If they are smart and powerful enough to do:

"develop four previously unknown zero-day attacks and a peer-to-peer communications system, compromise digital certificates belonging to Realtek Semiconductor and JMicron Technology, and display extensive knowledge of industrial systems."

then why did this happen?

"In recent weeks, they've broken the cryptographic code behind the software"



They're talking about the encryption of the executable code and data of the worm itself. It can't run if it doesn't decrypt itself at some point. It's not meant to be bombproof, it's just another hurdle.


OK, then it's just sloppy journalism, because that's not 'breaking the encryption of the code', but rather 'snooping on the execution of the code'.


I suspect a lot of that article is sensationalizing and extrapolation from too few data points, on behalf of security experts seeking publicity.




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