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. […]
It could be that failure is punished very severely
It isn’t all that uncommon in Authoritarian government