The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities.
Poor kid. Seems he was just starting out and didn’t get into the weeds of OpSec.
He used a personal laptop with his personal information stored on it tied to an identifier. Not great OpSec. A hardware ID spoofer or a partitioned disk with different OS would’ve made wonders.
Poor kid. Seems he was just starting out and didn’t get into the weeds of OpSec.
He used a personal laptop with his personal information stored on it tied to an identifier. Not great OpSec. A hardware ID spoofer or a partitioned disk with different OS would’ve made wonders.
It goes to show you, Linux is the better OS to have.