Ideally. Intelligence agencies like Russian ones have already been shown to lace real dumps with edited or fake files. But I'd rather not waste time reading about it when not a single one has yet been seen, much less verified. This is a press release to announce the future release of a press release.
I opened the link in the linked article inside of windows sandbox and it does not appear to contain malware. Page works with no script enabled. The url shortened link points to https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss24a6
A “planned leak” with 0 demonstration of legitimacy is nothing more than creative writing on the internet.
When planned leaks like this occur for real (or black hats are trying to prove possession of data they shouldn’t have like credit card dumps) there’s almost always a small cut of the data that’s released to give legitimacy to the actor and the dump.
This looks much more like someone trying to wateringhole attack people or extort crypto influencers/funds.
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[ 0.17 ms ] story [ 30.5 ms ] threadif you're a crypto influencer, you might try to see if you have been implicated in the supposed leak
but if you're skeptical ... how can you be sure this isn't a scam?
what are they scamming?
When planned leaks like this occur for real (or black hats are trying to prove possession of data they shouldn’t have like credit card dumps) there’s almost always a small cut of the data that’s released to give legitimacy to the actor and the dump.
This looks much more like someone trying to wateringhole attack people or extort crypto influencers/funds.