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 Black Hat and Def Con hacking conferences earlier this month. The hacker approached attendees on the social media site X, both via public replies and DMs, and then leveraged Google Docs in an attempt to trick the targets into installing malware, according to researchers.
