Connor Jones reports:
They say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure. For cybercriminals, taking too many shortcuts when it comes to opsec delivers a little more than that.
In these cases, failure might mean the criminal doesn’t get access to the server with the most valuable data to copy, or fails to trick any of the victim org’s staff members to execute a malicious remote access tool. Complacency, however, can get them caught, and all too often we hear about highly skilled individuals taking one too many shortcuts – the type that leads police to their doors.
Read about several notable opsec fails, including IntelBroker and Sabu, at The Register.