If you are a malicious hacker, cybersecurity professionals may very well be the worst people in the world to try to hack, as there is a very good chance they are going to catch you. A person pretending to work for a leading crypto news site targeted several cybersecurity professionals around the time of the hacking conferences Black Hat and Def Con earlier this month. The hacker approached attendees on social media site X, both via public replies and DMs, and then leveraged Google Docs in an at…
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