Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison
Lapsus$: 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.
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Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.
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, a phone is literally a portable computer. It's like saying he made a bomb using nothing but a hairclip, a rubber band, and a grenade.
To most people though it's still the equivalent because they don't know any better.
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":
In a "flagrant disregard for his bail conditions", jurors were told that police found an Amazon Fire Stick in his hotel TV allowing him to connect to cloud computing services with a newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse.
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
That is fucking wild