Don't glamorize cybercrims, roast them instead

Trellix VP of threat intel John Fokker argues the security industry should stop glamorizing cybercriminals and instead mock and ridicule them. His team created the 'Dark Web Roast,' a blog using memes and mockery to highlight criminals' blunders — like a ransomware gang faking victims for content, or an exploit developer publicly devaluing his own $70K find. Fokker points to law enforcement operations like the LockBit takedown and FBI's Hive infiltration as examples of how public mockery and trust-fracturing tactics can be more effective than simply seizing infrastructure, which criminals can quickly rebuild.