Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison::Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.
Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison::Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.
This sounds all impressive, and MacGyver level. But I need more info. Did he just cast his phone screen to the TV so he could see better while he used ssh or ftp in to a poorly secured port at Rockstar or did he do some crazy shit.
Yeah, that is about what happened. According to the BBC, he had purchased a keyboard, mouse and Fire TV stick to “connect to cloud services”:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66549159
Naturally, almost all “news” sources cook up a headline like “hack carried out with only an Amazon Fire Stick”. Ugh.
Right, lol, so the fellow could have just connected to a free cloud VM running Kali and run some scripts, or more likely got access to Rockstar cloud services by social engineering a password out of someone. Riveting stuff, hah