Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group

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DOJ claims the group stole over $100 million across various attacks.

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hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
seems like this GDID is the same thing as HWID? the article is light on technical details, i can’t quite understand what exactly they did…

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