US military spies: We'll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries

Misdirection

So when they are found to have attacked someone, it still will be all "No comment", but with the implication that it's a retaliation, rather than the default assumption: aggression. It's not about retooling malware at all.

"I want to reengineer it and prep to use it against"

but they (the government) were the people who created it... That's like a guy taking a piss next to a tree and then saying I'm going to slam the guy who pissed next to the tree.

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".

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

Notice that that's within the capabilities of any adept scammers...

... which is one of the reasons why attributions is impossible. Anybody can take malware from someone else, repackage it and perhaps change the strings in it to another language... and use it again.

Whoa..meta

So somebody has already taken our malware and used it against us, so we're gonna take their strategy of using our malware against us and use it against them, and then they're gonna use our strategy of copying their strategy against and then

Hey everyone

Uncle Sam is offering free QA!

"We must disrupt to exist."

I find quite disturbing that a person with that mentality is in charge of a cyber-warfare division.

It's like putting a sadist in charge of a prison.

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.

This is like Darwin all over again, isn't it?

> Once we've isolated malware, I want to reengineer it and prep to use it against the same adversary who sought to use against us

What does the DoD have against NSA?

Don't a lot of malware packages patch security holes once in?

My recollection is that many of the worst viruses clean up and patch behind themselves in order to keep other miscreants out and take sole control of the systems they infect.

Map

Norse's map was debunked last year, along with all their fake tech. But if it makes the DOD happy, I guess they can have it.

It's be fun to watch the CIA,NSA and DoD, stabbing at each other for a change.

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.