A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets

Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move
cybercriminals made -” including their login details.  [...]

Some attackers were sophisticated, while others appeared inept. And some
just behaved oddly -” one person who logged into the machine changed the
desktop background and logged out, and another wrote “lol” before covering
their tracks and leaving, the researchers behind the study say.  [...]

Bergeron and Bilodeau have grouped the attackers into five broad categories
based on character types from …

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