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APT Down and the mystery of the burning data centers

In August 2025 Phrack published the dump of an APT member's workstation. It was full of exploits and loot from government networks, cell carriers and telcos. The dump sparked a government investigation, and corpos like LG and Korea Telecom were asked to explain themselves. Hours before an onsite audit, the data center mysteriously caught fire, destroying almost a hundred servers. Then another data center burned - and unfortunately, there was even one death. The talk aims to revisit this mysterious sequence of tragic incidents. [TW: Suicide, self-harm]

English
  • Originally Aired December 29, 2025
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Production Code 1492
  • Created December 22, 2025 by
    r4m3u5
  • Modified December 29, 2025 by
    r4m3u5