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Davis County high school students are hacking the hackers behind phishing schemes

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Dissent

Don Brinkerhoff reports:

A group of high school juniors in Davis County are hacking the hackers to protect phishing victims.

“All my friends and peers around me got hacked,” said Charles Mortensen a Davis County student.

Mortensen said in one case, a friend who’s in foster care had her Instagram account hacked. That was the only way she could contact her mom.  So, Mortensen decided to do something about it and created VEGA.

“What the victim does is they type in the username and password and then it gives it to the hacker,” Mortensen said.” What VEGA does (is) it does the exact same thing but instead, it sends just fake information.”

“What it essentially does, (is) it sends fake usernames and passwords. So, the hacker cannot tell what passwords and usernames are real or not,” Mortensen said. “I can send about half a million requests to one hacker within a night. I just let VEGA run overnight and then normally when I wake up … the website [is] shut down.”

Read more at KSL.

There doesn’t seem to be any mentions of of “hack-back” or whether what the student is doing might be illegal.

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