@jroosen Ya these are all good points. It's another one of those "it depends" questions. In most cases the context of this decision is like cobalt strike c2 or other more static infrastructure and not the tiered networks used by come of the bigger commodity malware variants. I do think interacting with law enforcement is unlikely for most people though.
The reason I ask is because I think both sides have value and its really a question of what motivates you, understanding or impacting the actor.
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Something that I have been running into lately is the decision to take action on adversary infrastructure or to let it ride and monitor for new intelligence. Personally, I try to keep the actor from gaining anymore new victims if I can help it.
When faced with the opportunity to impact the actor's infrastructure what do you choose?
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