HACKING ART GALLERIES AND EARNING $3M USD BY SELLING PAINTINGS. ARE THEY HACKERS OR ARTISTS?

Artworks have always been the subject of the desire of thieves, and great crimes have occurred in the most important museums in the world, or at least that was the case before technology occupied virtually any aspect of our lives. Cybersecurity specialists claim that hackers are exploring new attack vectors capable of compromising unusual terrain.

A report indicates that the buyer of a recognized artwork was tricked by threat actors into sending payment for the work (more than $2.5 million USD) to the wrong bank account, operated by hackers. The painting in question is “A View of Hampstead Heath: Child’s Hill”, by British artist John Constable, a major representative of the romantic artistic period in the United Kingdom. 

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