The Symantec researcher has not reported Igor to local authorities, calculating that exposing the methods of the attack will be enough to neutralize them.Igor appears to have targeted the auto-tech company to steal its car diagnostics software, which retails for around $1,100 but Igor sold for just a few hundred dollars on underground forums and websites he had created. "Further investigation revealed a 2017 equivalent of the hobbyist hackers of the 1990s.THE SMOKING GUN"Attribution is almost never a clean, smoking-gun," said Paul Vixie, creator of the first commercial anti-spam service, whose latest firm, Farsight Security, helps firms track down cyber attackers to identify and block them. The topic is a big talking point for military officials and private security researchers at the International Conference on Cyber Conflict in Tallin this week.

Attribution for those attacks remains disputed.It took weeks before the lead cyber spying investigator at Symantec, a top US computer security firm, figured out instead he was tracking a lone-wolf cyber criminal."Reuters could not contact the alleged hacker."I think those days are over when we can say in black and white: We know this is an espionage group," DiMaggio said.Raising the stakes, a mystery group calling itself ShadowBrokers has taken credit for leaking cyber-spying tools that are now being turned to criminal use, including ones used in the recent WannaCry global ransomware attack, ratcheting up cyber security threats to a whole new level.In recent weeks, ShadowBrokers has threatened to sell more such tools, believed to have been stolen from the US National Security Agency, to enable hacking into the world&China Air spray gun39;s most used computers, software and phones.Bachosens as a very low risk virus, in part because the attack singles out only a handful of specific firms rather than the wide-ranging, random attacks used by many cyber criminals to scoop up the greatest number of victims.