[–] dhaavi 4y ago ↗ Related: Discussion started by Florian Roth, creator of the Thor scanner: https://twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/1496815032738459651
[–] catfishx 4y ago ↗ What prevents Russian Hackers to set their locale to en_US for using specific hacking tools? [–] dhaavi 4y ago ↗ Of course changing the language is easy, but in a defensive scenario, Florian Roth argues that a big organisation would not change the language of their 1000+ assets in order run a malware scanner. [–] catfishx 4y ago ↗ That would not be necessary, they'd just have to change it for that specific scanner.Even the example shows how easy that is (just prepend `LANG=en_US ` to the command of the malware)
[–] dhaavi 4y ago ↗ Of course changing the language is easy, but in a defensive scenario, Florian Roth argues that a big organisation would not change the language of their 1000+ assets in order run a malware scanner. [–] catfishx 4y ago ↗ That would not be necessary, they'd just have to change it for that specific scanner.Even the example shows how easy that is (just prepend `LANG=en_US ` to the command of the malware)
[–] catfishx 4y ago ↗ That would not be necessary, they'd just have to change it for that specific scanner.Even the example shows how easy that is (just prepend `LANG=en_US ` to the command of the malware)
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