Cyber attacks on the USA (catch all)

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Unlike the unnamed South Korean intelligence official in the report who attributes this to sophisticated state action, the view in most of the tech community seems to be that this is pretty primitive stuff:

In the recent attack, experts say the malware used no sophisticated techniques to evade detection by anti-virus software and doesn’t appear to have been written by someone experienced in coding malware. The author’s use of a pre-written worm to deliver the code also suggests the attacker probably wasn’t thinking of a long-term attack.

It does make one wonder about the "security" on the affected computers, doesn't it?