Calls for offensive security are all the rage these days for derailing cyberespionage, and organizations such as the nation of Georgia's Computer Emergency Response Team, are aggressively embracing it: The CERT revealed in a new report that it set a trap that basically hacked an alleged cyberspy and recorded his activity via his computer's camera.

The Georgian CERT, while investigating a widespread cyberspying campaign against its ministries, parliament, critical infrastructure organizations, banks, and non-government organizations during 2011 and 2012, planted a malware-rigged ZIP file on one of its lab PCs with the juicy name "Georgian-Nato Agreement." The hacker ultimately grabbed the file and opened it, which ran malware that unbeknownst to him gave the CERT control over his machine.

The video surveillance and access to his machine provided the CERT with evidence, it says, that ties him to German and Russian hackers.

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Source: Dark Reading