"But in a sixth-form college in Manchester this week, two former hackers gave the young people gathered an honest appraisal of what living a life of internet crime really looks like. The teenagers in the room are listening intently, but the day-to-day internecine disputes they hear about is not the stuff of screenplays. It's just people getting into these online dramas and they're swatting and doxing each other and getting people to throw bricks through their windows, one of the hackers says."
"The hackers are former members of a sprawling cybercrime ecosystem dubbed The Com, and they're here for a very particular reason to urge talented teenagers to use their gaming and coding skills for the good. The talk is part of an initiative backed by the Co-op, which suffered a debilitating hack in April last year. The retailer has teamed up with The Hacking Games, a startup that identifies talented gamers to test companies' IT systems,"
Two former hackers visited a sixth-form college in Manchester and described life in cybercrime as petty, dangerous, and far from glamorous. They recounted internecine disputes, swatting, doxing, and attacks that escalate to physical intimidation. The speakers urged talented teenagers to channel gaming and coding abilities toward defensive cybersecurity work. The initiative is backed by the Co-op, which suffered a major hack, and partners with The Hacking Games to identify gamers to test company IT systems. Conor Freeman, 26, was jailed for nearly three years for involvement in a $2m cryptocurrency theft after being groomed via Minecraft.
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