How Mercenary Hackers Sway Litigation Battles (reuters.com) 7
A trove of thousands of email records uncovered by Reuters reveals Indian cyber mercenaries hacking parties involved in lawsuits around the world -- showing how hired spies have become the secret weapon of litigants seeking an edge.
"It wuz haxx0rz!" (Score:1)
Nope, still just kids being stupid. Including but not limited to those "haxx0rz". Idiot reporters and like "editors" who like a good scare story more than in-depth reporting too, of course.
Regular phishing and spear phishing, not hacking (Score:5, Interesting)
Basically a phishing attack, or spear phishing. No serious knowledge of coding or scripting needed. Any script kiddie could do it.
This Indian got caught because he is too dumb and dimwitted and did not know how to hide his tracks. Chinese, Eastern European hackers provide much high quality intrusions that do not depend on social engineering. And they are smart enough not to get caught and to find convenient dumb greedy people from around the world to take the blame. This time it happened to be Indian. That's all.
Fighting Legal, with Crime. (Score:2)
"A trove of thousands of email records uncovered by Reuters reveals Indian cyber mercenaries hacking parties..."
When criminals stealing shit is described as "uncovered by cyber mercenaries", it tends to make you wonder not who's side you're on writing shit like this, but if there are any legitimate sides left.
Talk about making a fucking mockery of the legal process.
Re: (Score:2)
"Whose", not "who's".
And, er, were there any, ever? Bickering and arguing over hat colours and who is more "ethical" doesn't make any of it legitimate.
A responsible peaceful society, subscribes to morals and ethics, and at least tries to maintain a lawful society.
Criminals, subscribe to Greed.
As you hinted, we're not talking about Cap'n Crunch whistles here. Yes, there is a reason we still use terms like Black and White to describe those who operate within the reasonable confines of the law, and those who disrespect the shit out of it, chaos and harm be damned.
"They were (and are) disrespectful and disregarding of other people and their property rights."
Since plenty of back-in-the-day hackers were charged with crimes related to them "experimenting
Of course this happens (Score:4, Insightful)
Note, this article is about incompetent 'hackers' and they got caught.
When millions + are at stake, people break the law. When corporations are involved, the decision to break the law gets pushed down to lower level employees that:
1) has access to a budget far above their official responsibility
2) have huge incentive to push the limits in order to become a mid level employee
3) are disposable.
4) have bosses that like having plausible deniability.