Yeah it is very bloated. I am suspicious that the article was bloated with AI rather than a human, though. I wonder if they either made the first section as a summary or extended sections necessarily.
For example, early on it says:
" collect interesting information, process the information, exfiltrate files, and distribute files, configurations and commands to other systems."
and later on: " they were used, among other things, to collect and process interesting information, to distribute files, configurations, and commands to other systems, and to exfiltrate files."
It also mentions several times that the attack on a South Asian countries embassy was the first time this software was seen.
Repeating info like this was kind of a sign of part-applied AI edits with RAG a while ago, might still be true today.
Yup, no respect for the people who published the article. It was one paragraph of content impossibly diluted. TLDR: some idiots allowed USB sicks to be plugged into the supposedly air-gapped system. Hilarity ensued.
For example, early on it says: " collect interesting information, process the information, exfiltrate files, and distribute files, configurations and commands to other systems."
and later on: " they were used, among other things, to collect and process interesting information, to distribute files, configurations, and commands to other systems, and to exfiltrate files."
It also mentions several times that the attack on a South Asian countries embassy was the first time this software was seen.
Repeating info like this was kind of a sign of part-applied AI edits with RAG a while ago, might still be true today.