Source assertions are not new attribution claims. No sole inventor or transitive actor-CVE inference.
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        {
          "source_name": "Unit 42 BackConfig May 2020",
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      "qualification": "Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.",
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        {
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      "qualification": "Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.",
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