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Business is Booming
Unbelievable. A fascinating dive into the business machinery of the Darknet. Bad actors that band together, and are so good at hacking us poor unfortunates, are now taking contracts from nation-states that need someone or something pounded digitally but don’t want to get their hands “dirty.” How does an organization do that? How do these leaders sleep at night?
Bahamut Criminals
Cybercriminals like the ones discussed in this article on Bahamut are legendary. They are remarkable not just for their exploits but because they can job out their services to governments. More information at the following link and a snippet below. http://zd.net/3rKhKRv
Dubbed Bahamut, the mercenary hacking group has been carrying out extensive operations against targets around the world in multi-pronged attacks that have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at BlackBerry. The campaigns appear to have been operating since at least 2016.
“The sophistication and sheer scope of malicious activity that our team was able to link to Bahamut is staggering,” said Eric Milam, VP of research operations at BlackBerry.
“Not only is the group responsible for a variety of unsolved cases that have plagued researchers for years, but we also discovered that Bahamut is behind a number of extremely targeted and elaborate phishing and…
