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That 189GB Epic Games “hack” may have been a scam aimed at other hackersSelf-described “ransomware” hackers now self-describe as “professional fraudsters”, reportedly
Self-described “ransomware” hackers now self-describe as “professional fraudsters”, reportedly
Image credit:Epic
Image credit:Epic
Last week’s allegedEpic Games hackwas a scam, so-called “ransomware” group Mogilevich have confessed, or at least, are reported to have confessed in a self-congratulary new statement. The group have not, it now seems, stolen a bunch of login data, WIP software and payment information from the creators ofFortnite; they were only pretending to have done so with a view to duping other hackers into buying their tools.
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“None of the databases listed in our blog were as true as you might have discovered recently,” the post continues. “We took advantage of big names to gain visibility as quickly as possible, but not to fame [sic] and receive approval, but to build meticulously our new trafficking of victims to scam.”
The statement frames the whole thing as an advertisement for fake ransomware infrastructure tools, and proceeds to gloat about having already tricked a number of other hackers. It concludes: “Now the real question is? Why confess all this when we could just run away? This was done to illustrate the process of our scam. We don’t think of ourselves as hackers but rather as criminal geniuses, if you can call us that.”
