Monday, October 5, 2020

Dumb Cyber Attack – Hacker Receives Our Darwin Award

...the hacker responsible for this attack on a luxury goods company which happened back in 2018 but has just been revealed by Max Heinemeyer...

The luxury goods business had installed ten fingerprint scanners so as to restrict access to warehouses in an effort to reduce risk. "Unbeknown to them," Heinemeyer continues, "an attacker began exploiting vulnerabilities in one of the scanners. In perhaps the weirdest hacker move yet, they started deleting authorized fingerprints and uploading their own in the hope of gaining physical access."

The AI brain picked this up because one scanner was behaving differently than the others, meaning the security team became aware of the attack within minutes. And, of course, had some pretty conclusive evidence to provide to law enforcement. more