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Syrian Social Hack Co-Opts Fighter's Computers
hij (552932) writes "The BBC is reporting that Syrian government forces used a social hack to gain access to opposing forces computers. By acting like women sympathetic to their cause they were able to send images laced with malware to the fighters. From the article: "Fake 'femme fatales' have been used to steal battle plans and other data from Syrian opposition groups, a report suggests. The virtual women had been used in text chat on Skype to engage potential victims, security company FireEye said. And data had been stolen via booby-trapped images of the women to whom the victims had believed they had been chatting."
Gives a new meaning to the name.
Honey Dicked
that burka thingie should have been a clue.
Opposition forces complain sympathetic women never look like their photos.
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
"I'll lift my burka slightly if you'll click on this exe file"
"Okay, sexy girl. But I should warn you that afterwards there is a good chance I'm going to stone you to death for being a whore."
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Doesn't even need to be that sophisticated. I was dealing with one of these "Fake women" once who I was stringing along because I knew it was a scam and so it was kind of fun to toy with the scammer.
It was simple, I uploaded a random picture to a webserver I controlled and told "her" to check it out and when I saw her reply without any logs on my server, I asked a question that would require looking at the photo to answer.... bingo.
I waited a few more minutes of chat while I looked up the IP registration info and shocked "her" by revealing I knew "she" was in Nigeria. Oh that was funny.
Soon after the game changed, and now he wanted to recruit me to remail packages. Strung him along for many weeks, it was kind of a fun hobby for a while.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"