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A security trio has brewed a toolset to help attackers find sensitive open source intelligence on human targets. Shubham Mittal of NotSoSecure, Nutan Kumar Panda of eBay, and Sudhanshu Chauhan of Octogence released their Datasploit toolset to help social engineers find phone numbers, email addresses, and account information of …

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  1. Trollslayer

    The example used

    They guy could have gone straight to the website since that was his target.

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    1. FrogsAndChips Silver badge
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      Re: The example used

      The website wasn't his initial target. He started from the home address to derive the victim's name, some history and family info, then his business which led him to the company website. Hacking the site was just some extra fun.

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  2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Big Brother

    WIll it prove to be a hit?

    It just needs the script to farm out a "contract" to the Dark Web automatically, and off we go.

    Datasploit is created with Python and is built on MongoDb, Django, Celery and RabbitMq

    Was this done to attract the Web 3.0 crowd?

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