Forescout’s phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop

Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.

Forescout said the short-lived TwoNet hacktivist group fell for one of its researchers’ honeypots, designed to look like a water treatment plant to a remote attacker. […]

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    4 days ago

    I feel like this is the plot to a Hallmark movie. He was a Russian Hacktivist group, She was a researcher setting up honeypots to trap her enemies. But what she never expected was to trap love in her honeypot.

    …and now maybe it’s the plot for a shitty porno. Anyway, Netflix, give me money.