This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” How did GhostShell avoid arrest for so many years? Was his OpSec that good, or is Romanian law enforcement a bit uninterested? We asked him how it is that he was never identified or arrested. On one…
GhostShell, On the Record – Psychological Factors
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” In “Dark Hacktivism,” GhostShell wrote, “Always remember to play the part of a normal human being,” We asked whether he felt he was playing the part and about his other comments in Dark Hacktivism on psychological…
GhostShell, On the Record – On criticisms of “simple” hacks
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” As prolific as TGS was, their hacks were not particularly sophisticated, as noted by Imperva and Symantec. GhostShell agreed that the public projects were simple, but doesn’t see that as a weakness. Every single public project…
GhostShell, On the Record – Why did he really disappear in 2013?
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” In a March, 2013 interview with Eduoard Kovacs, GhostShell was asked whether he was taking a break from hacking and whether it was because of law enforcement. GS answered him at the time: I’m taking…
GhostShell, On the Record – Snitches, Feds, and the Scene
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” GhostShell talked about snitches in the context of a number of questions over the course of the interview, but given the presence of so many snitches and federal agents in Anonymous, it’s not surprising that…
GhostShell, On the Record – “Team” GhostShell?
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” We asked GhostShell about other members of Team GhostShell and how many there were, because frankly, one of us (yes, that would be me) suspected that the team was really a one-man operation. His answer seems to be depend…