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Brazilian Army Gets Hacked After Allegations of Cheating In Security Cyber-Games
An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous hackers breached the servers of the Brazilian Army, and later leaked the personal details of around 7,000 officers. The incident seems to stem from CTF games where security teams try to hack each other. Apparently the Brazilian Army team used forbidden tactics to win its games, and the hackers responded by doxxing some of their officers.
A snippet: According to the hackers' statement, the Brazilian Army team used a forbidden technique to win their CTF matches in a local CTF tournament. The technique they used is WiFi deauth, a simplistic attack that jams WiFi traffic, incapacitating the other team. The hackers also seemed upset at the fact that the Brazilian army was bragging about their accomplishments, being particularly angry at the usage of the word "elite."
Really? A small drone flying around, saturating/jamming your WiFi freq.
Except they didn't use a drone. They used a stationary jammer inside the facility, which is not realistic. They were also jamming WiFi, but a real military comm center would have cabled connections. WiFi was only being used because it was easier to run the game that way.
You want realistic games? Nothing is off limits.
The everyone would bring a shotgun to a chess tournament. Games are designed to test and exercise specific capabilities. There are always compromises that make them different from a real war, and rules to prevent participants from exploiting those compromises to "win" in unrealistic ways that would not work in a real conflict. Cheating to win doesn't make you better. It just corrupts the process, and then game is no longer an effective tool for improvement. So in a real war, you lose.
Except they didn't use a drone. They used a stationary jammer inside the facility, which is not realistic. They were also jamming WiFi, but a real military comm center would have cabled connections. WiFi was only being used because it was easier to run the game that way.
Seriously?
It is too difficult for the event organisers to run CAT-5/6 cables connected to a switch or router or concentrator and the computers used for these simulated attacks? What have geeks and hackers become these days? Pablum-fed infants?