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. […]
I’m sorry, what sort of “hacktivist” group targets water treatment plants? That’s not hactivism, that’s terrorism.
A pro-russian one apparently. Makes sense as their definition of terrorism is, conveniently, very flexible.
Yeah I wouldn’t call someone like that hacktivists if they’re selling their services to whoever.
Its a Russian government hacking group, for them there is no distinction