So I was going downstairs, this would be like, I don't know, 9 in the morning or so.

And then I met with two guys that are going upstairs.

It's 2009 and Louise Kornes a researcher working for Panda, a Spanish Cybersecurity Company, is at a high point in his career.

Just a few weeks earlier, he took to the Mariposa and placed its operators behind bars. Following the triumphant presentation,

Louis became somewhat of a public figure in Spain, so he wasn't that surprised when the two young men who were walking up the stairs in his office building recognized him.

And then they say, hey, wait a moment.

Are you Louis Corrans? I said, yes, yes I am. And then they introduce themselves

and they tell me their names. No clue. I didn't recognize those names. First time I hear these names, first time I see those faces, I didn't know anything, right? And then I said, nice meeting you.

And then they said, oh, wait, I am Net Cairo and this is Ostiaor.

Net Cairo and Oststeator, the two Botnet operators he just recently helped the Spanish police arrest.

Except they weren't behind bars.

They were in the stairwell of his office building standing right next to him,

alone.

Probably my face went white at that moment.

I was like, oh my god, I'm dead. Probably my face went white at that moment.

I was like, oh my God, I'm Ryan Levy. Welcome toRism's malicious life. Cybersecurity has a smart cow problem. No, I'm not talking about AI-equipped bovine overhackers. Although, to be honest, with AI improving

as rapidly as it does, I wouldn't rule out such a possibility in the future.

No, this is a term derived from the expression.

It only takes one smart cow to open the latch of a gate and then all the other cows follow. Applied to cyber security, it means

that it only takes a handful of sophisticated and knowledgeable individuals that can discover

vulnerabilities, create the tools to exploit them and then

disseminate these tools to low-skill script kiddies to give law enforcement

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