Author: Eric Milam

Behind every hack there’s a human. It’s easy to forget it when systems go down and an anonymous email arrives demanding you pay ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency, but hackers are people, too. I say this not to humanise them, but to defeat them. In the eternal battle against cybercrime, we need to understand hackers’ weaknesses – as the old adage goes, to “know your enemy”. While there’s no honour among thieves, cybercriminals often operate according to moral codes of conduct which, while twisted, are not always so far from our own. Just look at the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack. DarkSide, the ransomware group responsible, issued a statement claiming its goal…