Last night I set a new record for the length of time it took me to find a specific cybercriminal in real life. This one only took ten years, and hundreds of hours of research -- almost all of it in the wrong direction. I'm ecstatic, but also kind of mad at myself for missing key pieces of the puzzle that it turns out I had IN MY INBOX all along.
Anyway, the person in question is a big fish, and this going to be quite the story when it's ready. So, if I'm unresponsive to nudges etc for the next, er...week probably, you know why.
A certain big box retailer may be less than thrilled about a breach retrospective/whodunit coming out soon. The story isn't really about them, but I expect that a week before Christmas they probably would prefer not to see any story mention their brand and the word "breach." #dejavu
It'd be neat to know these stories, like Cliff Stoll's book, The Cuckoo's Egg. Dunno if this one rises to a full 300+-page book, but a collection of these kinds of stories could be fun -- the parts that can be shared, anyway. 😂
Hopefully this is or isn't about an ecosystem 'takedown' of a well know or not well known person or persons associates at a well known or not company or something, allegedly. 😆
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