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The Beekeeper
2024 · Film · 106 min
Directed by David Ayer
One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
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- Steal application credentials if posix perms or database privs are weak, attempt privilege escalation, install rootkit RATs Remote Access Trojans for persistence and hiding processes.
- Install Proxies, DDoS Agents, Bitcoin mining, proxy to SMTP servers, etc...
- If anything looks interesting on their console they will log in and poke around. The order of these events depends on the sophistication of the bot script. Most are very simple.
If you the target look like you have money they may install ransomware and encrypt some of your files. Now I want to watch the Beekeeper again as corny as it was, also a fun movie.
I don’t think it’s a silent crisis per se, but just one people ignore.
There’s tons of media about it, tons of people are aware of elder fraud etc but people don’t want to think about the vulnerable of society. There’s been jokes about it and media about it going back decades.
People are aware but solving it requires an uncomfortable level of change in society, training and regulations.
As an aside, both Thelma and The Beekeeper are recent movies about elders being scammed and revenge being taken. Both very different but enjoyable.
This is the plot of the movie, ‘The Beekeeper’.
There was a movie about that from last year - The Beekeeper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
I suppose that would depend on your working definition of correctness.
If correct means its legally unenforceable and practical and you only take that into consideration in isolation, then yes, right up until logarithmic error occurs, as you say.
The brass verdict is not a new concept, you see it show up in movies all the time like for example, The Beekeeper with Jason Statham.
Unfortunately it is a fairly sound and established fact that violence happens more often when law fails to serve its primary function for the people.
In a "rule of law", non-violent conflict management takes place. This is one of its primary purposes.
When the requirements for a "rule of law" degrade into a "rule by law" regardless of what members of such systems may claim (people may be delusional,blind, or lie), through corruption or otherwise, these things inevitably occur since there is no other means to resolve conflict.
This may just be one more example where business people win so much that they lose.
When someone is at the top of a company, you are responsible not only for your actions, but for those under you as well.
People in those positions must always be vigilant to inaction more than action, including those actions of others who are under your purview because inaction or failure to oversee is an action itself and a choice that is favored by many absent any information under many common management styles today.
This is a sad story, but the news rarely covers anything other than fire flood or blood. If it doesn't bleed, it doesn't lead, or so the newsies say.
That's the plot of some recent, just 'so-so' action movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
You'll get to see these call centers being blown up, and some scammers beaten or killed by the main protagonist. Also government/political conspiracy, because the main villain is the son of Mrs. President. And of course the secret service protecting her and family at all costs against revenge.
Maybe also elements of persiflage of current tech-guruism.
Certainly, I had heard about those, but not the romance scam thing which I think is odd.
Romance scams are crazy profitable and have been for a long time. It seems the new techniques is to combine the romance scam with the binary options scam which trick people by presenting them with a false market where they think they're trading geniuses so they pour all of their money into the trading platform and sometimes all of their families money whereupon the money is stolen.
I enjoyed the movie The Beekeeper purely because of the violence metered onto scammers - I hate those *%$& with every fiber of my being.