🎥 How Hackers Changed the Media (and the Media Changed Hackers)

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Cyber extortion gangs routinely send journalists (often unsolicited) details about their hacks, victims, and leaked information, hoping that their exploits will make the news and damage victims' reputation. Journalists, in turn, are placed in a tricky situation, balancing the need to report accurate and true events with the ethics of empowering criminals. In today's mature hacker economy, some gangs have developed formal media and PR programs (such as the BlackMatter gang, which invited journalists to register on their platform in order to get early notification of data breaches, and direct access to "ask questions and get information from the primary source.")...

By:
Sherri Davidoff | CEO, LMG Security
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | Senior Writer/Editor, Cybersecurity, TechCrunch
Robert McMillan | Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Sadia Mirza | Partner, Troutman Pepper

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