[ApolloFortyNine]

Imo it just proves there's a 99% chance a standard distro has a current zero day in it.

If a state actor (it almost has to be a state actor at the time frame they were operating under) could put in this much effort once, they clearly could afford to do it X times. And when you look through the history of communications from the author, it just reads like 'another day at the office'.