News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by morkalork on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @12:41PM (#41569622)
A Russian helicopter pilot had his family escape Russia, stole a helicopter, fled to Ukraine with it and cashed out on the bounty money offered. Then he was found and assassinated in Spain by the FSB. We are living in interesting times.
Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by kspacewalk2 on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @12:58PM (#41569828)
> Then he was found and assassinated in Spain by the FSB.

And that only because he seems to have lost his sense of self-preservation and basically lived his life in the open, in a Spanish town full of Russian ex-pats. And scoffed at the idea that he'd be safer in Ukraine.

Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by r721 on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:11PM (#41570809)
Apparently the worst mistake was contacting his former girlfriend in Russia:

>Exactly how the killers found him has not been established, though two senior Ukrainian officials said he had reached out to a former girlfriend, still in Russia, and invited her to come see him in Spain.

>“This was a grave mistake,” one of the officials said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/world/europe/russian-defe...

Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by bydlocoder on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:04PM (#41572077)
Or there's a mole in Ukrainian intelligence who sold him out
Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by theturtletalks on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:42PM (#41570433)
Questionable opsec is almost always the culprit. Even all these online black markets, it wasn’t some sophisticated operation to catch them. Many times, they use the same username on another website and now there’s a link. Hell, one of them used to send email verification for their black market using their personal email.

It doesn’t just stop there. A 49ers wide receiver got shot a couple weeks back because he posted on Instagram about buying a Rolex and he was lucky to survive. That’s also questionable opsec.

Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by BlueTemplar on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @04:13AM (#41577140)
What is a "49ers wide receiver" ??
Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by skylurk on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @04:42AM (#41577341)
Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by BlueTemplar on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @05:01AM (#41577465)
Please don't use google.

Also, yeah, this came up when I searched (on duckduckgo), but it seemed like the wrong match, since I don't see how it could be related ??

Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by skylurk on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @05:02AM (#41577478)
haha got it from ddg gi! ;)

and yes, it's unrelated for sure

Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by air3y on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @03:23PM (#41571635)
Didn't he kill his crew mates in the helicopter before or after landing in Ukraine.
Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by asymmetric on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @12:57PM (#41569809)
Source?
Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by morkalork on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:01PM (#41569863)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68337794

He was offered $500,000 to do it.

Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by jakubmazanec on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:04PM (#41572717)
This story maybe continues - the killed pilot was allegedly seen alive in Czechia. Though this information is unconfirmed [1].

[1] https://denikn.cz/1510394/cesti-zpravodajci-resili-zda-byl-z...