How they caught a hacker and an insider at the World Bank

We continue to surf the web in search of cool information security stories. And today - an instructive story about how Amelie Koran (aka webjedi) almost with her bare hands caught a hacker who attacked the World Bank server, as well as an insider who tried to play on this story. Disarming them, she went to a much larger and more dangerous "game". This story was shared with the public by the English-language podcast  Darknetdiaries . Here is a retelling of the episode.





Screenshot from https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/91/
Screenshot from https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/91/

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