We always love a good story of cybersecurity intrigue, like this one.
"Veteran security researcher John Bambenek purposely broke one of the first rules of OPSEC when he decided to reach out to Guccifer 2.0 in order to gather intel on the 2016 presidential campaign hacks: never expose your true identity to the adversary.
For a two month period in late 2016—not long after the infamous Guccifer 2.0 online persona first appeared online and began leaking data to the media and via Twitter from stolen documents from the Russian hacks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)—Bambenek reached out to Guccifer 2.0 via a Twitter direct message (DM), using his real name and actual party affiliation as an Illinois Republican."
The rest of the story details how the conversation went and what types of documents Guccifer 2.0 was willing to share—and brag about.
