Last Wednesday, Belgium-based Polish hacker Thomasz T. was
arrested
during a visit to his home country. Thomasz is believed to be the author of the Polski, Vortex, and Flotera ransomware families.
Though this may look impressive on one’s cybercrime CV, it turns out that Thomasz may not be the most skilled of hackers. At VB2017 in Madrid, Polish security researcher and
journalist
Adam Haertlé presented a paper about him, the title of which is quite telling: “The life story of an IPT – Inept Persistent Threat actor”.
Botnet C&C traffic.
Following Thomasz’s arrest, we have published Adam’s paper on our website in both
HTML
and
PDF
format, and we have uploaded the video of his presentation to our
YouTube
channel. We have also published Adam’s slides (
pdf
), for anyone who wants to look at Thomasz’s online adventures in a bit more detail.
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