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Spies Hack. But the Best Spies Hack Other Spies. (bleepingcomputer.com)
Andrada Fiscutean, writing for BleepingComputer: When cyber spies known as NetTraveler were busy snooping on hundreds of government and military victims in 40 countries a few years ago, little did they know that another hacking group was probably watching them. During their investigation of NetTraveler, Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered an unusual backdoor that could have helped another attacker access one of their main servers, and then use the group's infrastructure or steal data. In the past five years, cybersecurity experts have encountered several cases in which espionage groups likely pilfered one another's spoils, being interested in getting both data and hacking tools. Kaspersky Researchers Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade talked about such incidents on Wednesday during the Virus Bulletin 2017 Conference in Madrid, Spain. Government hackers sometimes "obtain data by stealing it from someone else, who took it in the first place from the victims," Raiu told Bleeping Computer in an email interview before the conference. He and Guerrero-Saade believe that citizens' personal data could fall into the hands of a foreign intelligence agency that's better equipped than the domestic one. The experts based their presentation on so far unpublished research that shows how spies walk off with other spies' data and tools, gaining valuable insight into a foreign service's intelligence collection methods, recruitment tactics, procedural guidelines, and the targets operatives have to monitor.
MAD Magazine? Spy vs Spy?
Hacks Best.
Or:
Who watches the watchers?
From what I've learned from watching James Bond you need to replace the word "Hack" in the title to another four letter word ending in "ck".
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
It was always easier to sniff TOR, run honeypots, and google strings from popular webshells than it was to find and hack something on your own.
One person could easily have the intrusion capability of a whole team worth of hackers. Who knows how long it takes to build a nice botnet but it takes a few hours to find one and steal it.
gets the cheese.
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
But it's spies all the way down.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
So does this mean WannaCry was not carried out by the North Koreans? Maybe the Russians in diguise?
. . .fourth party collection.
Bleepingcomputer, on the other hand, is not worth my time at all. Nothing but "THE UNKNOWN HACKERS CYBER-HACKED WITH SOPHISTICATED HACKS!" and that was all the content there was to it. But they like tooting their own horn.
No wonder the new new new shmucks posing as editors like bleepingcomputer so much.
The best spy hacks other spies into hacking each other.
So, uh, how many layers are we going to go down on spies hacking each other??
...hack the spies who are hacking other spies.
And the the ultimate spy hacks that spy.
When i started suspecting my Husband was cheating,so i hired a private detective/hacker to spy into my husband email, facebook, photos on his phone and also whatsapp,snapchat,kik,SMS,MMS,call logs.He can also spy on the targets phone without having physical access to it. i will recommend you follow the same step. you can contact the detective/hacker via mail at charlescyberwiz@gmail.com!! You can let him know that it was leslie that referred u.