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What do you guys think of the mistakes made by the Twitter "Hackers" that led to their capture and arrest?
I put hacker in quotation marks, as it turns out from a conversation with a affiliated member of the same organization, that the way the tool was obtained, was specifically through social engineering of a twitter employee whose data had been scraped from LinkedIn, after running a large phishing campaign.
Arrest Warrant for the "Mastermind" of the attacks can be found , courtesy of Doxbin's hall of autism.
One of the largest things that got them tracked was their lack of OPSEC and their use of Discord to discuss the explicit details, as the New York Times reports , which I found extremely interesting, to say the least. It makes me wonder how someone can manage to pull off something the scale of the Twitter hacking, and be as careless as they were, and not even attempt to use encrypted or secure communications at all.
What are your guy's thoughts on all this?
I put hacker in quotation marks, as it turns out from a conversation with a affiliated member of the same organization, that the way the tool was obtained, was specifically through social engineering of a twitter employee whose data had been scraped from LinkedIn, after running a large phishing campaign.
Arrest Warrant for the "Mastermind" of the attacks can be found , courtesy of Doxbin's hall of autism.
One of the largest things that got them tracked was their lack of OPSEC and their use of Discord to discuss the explicit details, as the New York Times reports , which I found extremely interesting, to say the least. It makes me wonder how someone can manage to pull off something the scale of the Twitter hacking, and be as careless as they were, and not even attempt to use encrypted or secure communications at all.
What are your guy's thoughts on all this?
