NEW: Every time one of the 2,000-plus attackers forced their way into the machine, researchers watched and secretly recorded their every move—as well as stealthily grabbing any data copied onto the clipboard of the attacker’s own devices.
three years, hapless cybercriminals trying to steal data or deploy malware have been stumbling upon a virtual machine hosted in the United States. Like countless others, this machine’s weak password could easily be cracked. But, unbeknown to the hackers, the remote machine they’ve been accessing is a trap.
Some attackers were sophisticated, while others appeared inept. And some just behaved oddly—one person who logged into the machine changed the desktop background and logged out, and another wrote “lol” before covering their tracks and leaving, the researchers behind the study say.
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