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Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap (www.theregister.com)

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Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop

Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.

Forescout said the short-lived TwoNet hacktivist group fell for one of its researchers' honeypots, designed to look like a water treatment plant to a remote attacker. [...]

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[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 65 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I feel like this is the plot to a Hallmark movie. He was a Russian Hacktivist group, She was a researcher setting up honeypots to trap her enemies. But what she never expected was to trap love in her honeypot.

...and now maybe it's the plot for a shitty porno. Anyway, Netflix, give me money.

[–] blave@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

When Gen Z becomes the target demographic for the hallmark movies, you can bet there’ll be a dozen of these a month.

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

He was a russian hacktivist,

She was a researcher,

Can I make it any more obvious?

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

... Jerry Orbach's eyes....