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How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang
When cybersecurity researcher Jon DiMaggio saw the announcement, he immediately wondered: Do the cops have the same guy I have identified? For the last couple of years, DiMaggio, who is a researcher at the cybersecurity firm Analyst1, had developed a relationship with LockBitSupp — first pretending to be a budding cybercriminal interested in joining the gang, then as himself. On Friday, in a talk at the hacking conference Def Con in Las Vegas, DiMaggio told the whole story of his relationship with LockBitSupp, detailing how he gained his trust using a made-up persona, and then kept the relationship going even after DiMaggio publicly revealed that he had infiltrated the gang and tricked LockBitSupp into giving up details of the operation to him.
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