Hacker Selling Pentagon’s Killer Drone Manual on Dark Web for $150, Cheap

‘ANONYMOUS’

The seller was part of a small hacking crew based in South America that specializes in low-hanging fruit—like home-filing sharing networks that have no password by default.

Sr. National Security Correspondent

Published Jul. 10 2018 8:40PM EDT

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A sensitive training manual for the U.S. military’s lethal MQ-9 Reaper UAV was put up for sale on an underground marketplace last month, after a hacker plucked it from an Air Force captain’s home network using a default password.

But despite an asking price of only $150, nobody was interested.

Kevin Poulsen

Sr. National Security Correspondent

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Hacker Selling Pentagon’s Killer Drone Manual on Dark Web for $150, Cheap

The seller was part of a small hacking crew based in South America that specializes in low-hanging fruit—like home-filing sharing networks that have no password by default.

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Kevin Poulsen