A plastic surgeon of the celebrities in London decided to fight back against the hacker group, “Dark Overlord” after the group downloaded patient pictures and information. Fighting back by organizations has been on the rise and called, “Hacking Back”. The article mentions organizations deploying several different resources to gather information on the hackers and initiate an offensive against the hackers. The article didn’t mention any statics on the success, but I would imagine it would depend on the size and capabilities of the hackers.
The Dark Overlord is a hacking group that has taken credit for several major information system hacks over the last several years. They have been growing and do this as a full time job. Just like we go to our job and do whatever it is we do, they go to the office and hack systems. You never know who is on the other end of a hack. Be careful not to upset the beast. In my opinion, a group like Dark Overlord can destroy a person/company if they identify you as a target. My advice… Don’t put yourself in a situation where the Dark Overlord can beat you up. Do you best to avoid the conflict by protecting your system and acknowledging certain information may be best kept in a secure system, segregated from other organizational networks.
Here are a few sips from the article on what happened.
“…the hackers had targeted London Bridge Plastic Surgery (LBPS), which describes itself as “one of the leading plastic-surgery clinics in the U.K.” on its website. LBPS clients include TV star Katie Price and other celebrities, …graphic and close-up images of surgery on male and female genitalia”
“doctors tried to gather information on the Dark Overlord with a small hack of their own”
“The hackers shared a Word document with The Daily Beast that the group says Chris Inglefield, LBPS’ chief surgeon, sent to them, but …it contains no text at all”
The file was an “image stored on a server belonging to LBPS. When the target opens the document, it opens a connection and retrieves the image from LBPS’ server, meaning LBPS now has the target’s IP address”.
He was caught by the “Dark Overlord” group and they responded with, “We confronted Christopher about his attempt to de-anonymize us, and he denied it vehemently. …We punished Christopher accordingly, …it amounts only to a fair bit of chuckling around the office.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hackers-say-plastic-surgeon-to-the-stars-hacked-back-at-them
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