‘We are not ready’: a cyber expert on US vulnerability to a Russian attack.
https://www.oodaloop.com/technology/2022/03/11/we-are-not-ready-a-cyber-expert-on-us-vulnerability-to-a-russian-attack/
@th3j35t3r I remember an attack one of my old community members had been working on, the plan was to use sms texts to DDoS people's sim cards, by sending them thousands of texts that will keep the phone flooded and locked down. After separating from them, I've never heard of it getting used, so likely they ran into troubles with getting it to work. I pictured that as a fundamentally huge flaw in our handheld devices. Nowadays I imagine spam blockers will catch it.
@th3j35t3r this guy was a mix of really smart and really dumb. Once he got his hands on a LOIC I got very uncomfortable with him. He'd DDoS members of our community if he got pissy with them. Would "reinvent" household devices by tearing them apart and rebuilding them. I remember he was really proud of weaponizing a microwave.
Last I heard he was on the RT thought train pushing all of their agendas and living in a van he refitted.
@th3j35t3r also tbh I'm quite uneducated on how sim cards worked so I believed it 😅
@lacuda That could never work. 'DDoSing a SIM card via SMS messages'??? WTF?