“Sometime in 2012, various media outlets and research groups began referring to TA 402 as a Palestinian-sponsored threat actor. Some researchers have pointed to the fact that the C2 infrastructure involved in some of the earliest attacks executed by TA 402 resides on servers based in the West Bank. However, the nature of the region’s geopolitics prohibits Palestine from exercising sovereignty over any internet infrastructure within its territory. The servers in question don’t belong to any Palestinian entities.”
https://d33pdiv3r.com/2023/04/24/cutting-through-the-fog-of-cyberwar-a-deep-dive-into-ta-402/