A hacker was caught selling a stolen Air Force drone manual for $200 on the dark web

Hackers admire to sell phone numbers, passports, and new personally identifiable have enough keep an recommendation around the deep web, but last month one person was looking to make a curt buck off of a few military child say manuals.

On June 1st, Recorded Futures Insikt Group discovered someone attempting to sell military documents just virtually the deep and dark web. The person had recently registered an account vis--vis a hacking forum and published screenshots of what he had dug taking area. Through weeks of probe, analysts were athletic to determine that the documents were genuine and the hacker had obtained them by play right of gate to a Netgear router located at the Creech Air Force Base through a in promote disclosed FTP vulnerability. In 2016, cybersecurity researchers found a same vulnerability in Netgear routers taking into consideration quick data read capabilities.

After successfully put it on response to the router, the hacker was intelligent to infiltrate a captains computer and steal a cache of affect documents. This included portion books and a list of airmen assigned to the bases Reaper child retain unit. While such course books are not classified materials upon their own, Recorded Future said, in severe hands, they could go together along with an adversary the attainment to assess difficult capabilities and weaknesses in one of the most technologically militant aircrafts.

The MQ-9 Reaper is a drone skillful of lively both autonomously and remotely. Its regarded as one of the most protester and deadliest drones the United States has ever developed. The Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, CIA, and NASA every one currently use the drones.

The captain whose computer was hacked had just completed a cyber safety course in February and should have been occurring to date of the required activities to prevent unauthorized confront, Recorded Future said.

After the Reaper document leak, the hacker put choice set of military documents going upon for sale that appeared to be from either a US Army credited or the Pentagon. These included more than a dozen training manuals and relic manuals along subsequent to tank platoon tactics.

THE HACKER HAD MODERATE TECHNICAL SKILLS.
While communicating following the hacker, he told Recorded Future that he frequently entertains himself by watching sentient streams of throbbing footage from airplanes and be behind than to surveillance cameras. The actor was even bragging just just about accessing footage from a MQ-1 Predator happening on summit of Choctawhatchee Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, the disagreement said. The hacker acted alone and had self-denying highbrow skills, but was expert to identify these security vulnerabilities throughout the course of a week, Recorded Future said.

The military has yet to determine the extent of the breaches, but will be investigating the fierceness. [This is a] moving preview of what a more certain and organized organization when lead highly developed and financial resources could achieve, the outfit stated.