That screenshot where the attacker agrees that buying their services would help makes me have a very strong suspicion this attack is either faked, sponsored by or in some way Hudson Rock is in cahoots with the attackers. That screenshot is a pure 100% advertisement manufactured by Hudson Rock one way or another.

As they usually say.. I'd check whoever is running Hudson Rock's hard drive.

The original HN link redirects to this company's home page now, so the blog post was likely an ad campaign to get traffic.

This is the point where the company's domain should get banned.

Doing some more digging, this is where the data is sourced

"Hudson Rock acquires and purchases compromised data directly from top-tier threat actors operating in closed circle hacking groups. What sets our data apart is its quality in providing high accessibility to hacker groups looking for potential targets, and the speed in which we make it available to clients compared to other threat intelligence companies. Our operational knowhow, and our boots-on-the-ground approach to cybercrime originates from the IDF's 8200 Cybercrime division, and its efforts to thwart nation-state adversaries and professional threat actors."

https://cavalier.hudsonrock.com/docs

This would imply that they are financially engaging with and supporting cyber criminals.

About as ethical as those other 8200 alums, NSO. The ethics of the IDF on full display.

NSO wasn't founded by 8200 alumni, however companies such as the following were:

* Checkpoint

* Palo Alto Networks

* Waze

* Wiz

* Cybereason

Does your theory hold up? no, but why not generalize

They've supposedly founded >1K companies, so easy to cherry-pick for any desired conclusion, but point taken.

Just a side effect of any apartheid regime, it is a deeply morally corrupted nation to the very core.

Generalizing over the whole nation? Hmm... Where have we seen this?..

In south africa?

Care to explain how a conflict between two national groups that are indigenous to the same land is similar to a racial system of segregation including beaches and restrooms, based on race theory with different racial classifications?

Or are you using a word that describes something different just because it evokes negative emotions?

I see you are ok with what you are... Well, no harm trying - I highly recommend you reading this: https://mo-husseini.medium.com/50-completely-true-things-1ce...