When Scriptkiddies Attack

Within a couple of minutes of tweeting, I received the following email from someone with a name matching that of one of my followers.

I particularly like this one for a couple reasons: If I wasn't such an upstanding citizen, I think my idea of being "blackhat for one second" would involve something a little more profitable and ambitious than giving out free malware to scriptkiddies (but I guess that's what blackhats do???) and the fact that he claims to have a remote RDP exploit and flash zeroday, but the best monetary amount he can offer is $50.

You can probably guess what the next email is if you're familiar with the popular phrase: "If at first you don't succeed, then result to blackmail".

I also looked up his facebook page and went through the pictures, but due to some CIA grade redaction I doubt we'll ever know his real name.


The hosting service he was using to "bumb" me kept killing the flood due to failures, so my inbox was hardly being overwhelmed by the volume. After about an hour of the world's lamest email flood, it ceased and i received another few mails from our friendly neighborhood hacker.