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Fascinating take on a different, darker side of tech innovation. Makes complete sense that criminal gangs use the same agile approaches to innovation that a sta
by ldayley 6y ago
Fascinating take on a different, darker side of tech innovation. Makes complete sense that criminal gangs use the same agile approaches to innovation that a start-up would use. Of course this is thegruqg writing here, so I expected nothing less. It somehow makes criminal activity seem so much more mundane when I imagine guys at desks writing code against support tickets and user stories.
Meta: It's nice to see an opsec company get smart and publish some of the better thinkers/communicators (like thegrugq) over writing product-tailored in-house content. Maybe security is an easier field to do this for, as being scared (justifiably or otherwise) is generally good for business.
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- grugq 6y agoThank you, I appreciate it. It is very unlikely that FIN7 are aware of their successful exploitation of the golden triangle. They almost certainly just pursued what worked best for them, creating a lean mean cybercriming machine along the way. (And isn’t that the real treasure?) Financially motivated crimes are essentially businesses, and so sometimes it can be useful to use business frameworks to understand the criminal enterprise. Fortunately FIN7 happen to be a particularly well documented, making such analysis possible. I don’t really know what to say re: your meta comment. I wrote some posts for them under contract. I had complete editorial control. I have no idea if it is easier than in other fields. None of the other posts (not posted yet) are about “scary” topics, so I’m not sure if the observation is correct.