Malware samples used in the recent attacks against several Polish banks contained planted evidence that attempted to blame the attacks on Russian-speaking hackers. These false flags, as the (IT and real-world) security community refers to these planted clues, were discovered by Sergei Shevchenko, a Russian-speaking security expert for BAE Systems. In a report published this morning, the researcher reveals that the malware used in those attacks contained a lot of mangled Russian words that no native speaker would have ever used. His investigation revealed that the malware’s real operators used online services, such as Google Translate, to translate the words from English to Russian.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer
