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Hackers hijacked the capital's surveillance cameras days before Trump's inauguration and said it was easy but they didn't cover their tracks
Recently, The Verge reported on a string of ransomware attacks that have hit cities including Baltimore; Atlanta, Georgia; Newark, New Jersey; and 22 Texas towns. Even The Weather Channel has fallen victim.
But before those attacks, there was an attack on the nation's capital, days before the presidential inauguration. An article from The Wall Street Journal details how hackers Alexandru Isvanca and Eveline Cismaru seized control of Washington, DC's surveillance cameras right before Trump's inauguration. The piece is full of twists and turns, from the small-time beginnings of the hackers' scamming careers to them eventually turning on each other.
[...] You can read the rest of the fascinating details in the full story here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @04:11AM (1 child)
No link means it didn't happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @02:55AM
Not everyone likes to circumvent paywalls, so I didn't paste in the link to avoid teasing them.
If your ethics let you do this, it's only a few extra clicks to put the WSJ link into the search box on archive.is like I did.
To whoever modded "flamebait" (the mod showing at this time), I'd love to hear your reasoning.