Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.

Forescout said the short-lived TwoNet hacktivist group fell for one of its researchers' honeypots, designed to look like a water treatment plant to a remote attacker.

Although the intrusion turned out to be an embarrassing own goal for TwoNet, which went on to brag about its endevours on the messaging and social media app, Forescout's warning is very real. The attack was benign in this case. However, in a real-world scenario, it would have been anything but.

Within 26 hours, the attackers had broken into what they thought was a critical infrastructure organization and proceeded to ta

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