I read a story in Naked Security recently that reported the arrest of a couple of Italian cyber-criminals who have been stealing personal information from Italian mayors, prime ministers, cardinals, and other notables since 2010. They used a phishing exploit to install a Trojan Horse/keylogger called EyePyramid. There were a couple of things that caught my eye.
The first is the sheer volume of data stolen – 87 gigabytes! This information was ...
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Is a good offense? If you or your company has been a victim of cyber-crime, I am sure you have had fantasies about back-hacking the perpetrators back to the stone age. Or having some sort of magic button phone app that would do the same thing.
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