Russian Hacker Gets a Taste of His Own Malware
After a persistent series of attacks on its government computers by a Russian hacker, the Republic of Georgia got mad and refused to take it anymore.
In a reversal of roles, members of the country's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) suckered the cybermiscreant into downloading a file infected with his own spyware that allowed CERT to photograph the alleged hacker with his computer's webcam and ransack its hard drive for files.
The Georgian CERT team discovered the hacker's activity in March 2011. He was planting advanced malicious software on computers in Georgia and elsewhere that collected sensitive, confidential information about Georgian and American security documents, the team said. "After investigating attackers servers and malicious files, we have linked this cyberattack to Russian official security agencies," Georgian CERT reported.
