The IT Nerd

From the “there’s zero chance that this will ever happen” department comes this message from the FBI to the hacker group known as ShinyHunters:

The assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, Brett Leatherman, starred in a video on the FBI’s X feed on Tuesday that warned ShinyHunters members the longer they operate, the more the FBI learns about them.

And:

He also suggested the gang just give up and surrender.

“The longer you stay in this, the more we learn about you,” Leatherman warned. “You know how to find us, and we know how to find you. I suggest you reach out first while the choice is still yours.”

What he’s referring to is this arrest by the group who apparently have pwned the FBI in a massive way. Now I don’t know any of the inner workings of the ShinyHnters group. But it is a pretty safe best that ShinyHunters is laughing right now. Yes, the arrest in Holland may have hurt them. But there’s not a chance that it will stop them. Chances are that they make way too much money hacking. And even a broad takedown of the group is not likely not stop them. So everyone should expect that this group will continue to hack anything and everything that they can see.

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