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RE: US cyberattack reportedly hit Iranian targets - XIan - 09-07-2019

(08-28-2019, 08:36 AM)specificcc Wrote:
(08-06-2019, 05:44 PM)XIan Wrote: How the hell do you even target specific countries / groups within countries? Is it literally just scanning an IP range and cross referencing with geolocation to get the targets? What happens then? Is it ddos'ing, pentesting, what?
Nah, I think they knew what they were targeting specifically. I'd say targeting a country is too broad a term. Pentesting is the closest to what they were doing, but I think that's an understatement.

Gotcha gotcha, thanks for the info!