It seems as though Violence as a service is becoming reality

We’ve probably covered the Las Vegas Cassino fiasco at some point or another, but I think it should be covered again.

This article is titled Hackers that breached Las Vegas casinos rely on violent threats, research shows which came from Cyberscoop.

This is quite interesting because as we know, these guys can be anywhere and can hire local people to do their bidding.

This was covered in Cybercrime Magazine’s podcast at the time.

The first paragraph says:

The prolific hacking group made up primarily of young people that was behind a recent breach that crippled several Las Vegas resorts has made graphic threats
of violence as part of its attempts to force victims to give up their credentials, according to research released Wednesday.

We’re linking to the report if people want to go ahead and read it.

The next paragraph says:

According to researchers with Microsoft’s threat intelligence and incident response divisions, members of the group it tracks as Octo Tempest — also known as 0ktapus, Scattered Spider or UNC3944 — tends to first target technical personnel on support desks and use social engineering techniques to trick them into giving up credentials or granting access to protected systems.

You can definitely read more about this, and we should at least be aware of what is happening.

Please stay safe out there!