The story of EncryptHub, who conquered 600 companies, but failed in conversations with ChatGPT.
Swedish computer security experts have uncovered an unusual story of a hacker who balances between a legitimate career and cybercrime. Last month, he received an official commendation from Microsoft for discovering two serious vulnerabilities in Windows, but as experts at Outpost24 KrakenLabs report , he was simultaneously involved in creating malicious programs.
The gaps found in the defense turned out to be really dangerous. The first vulnerability ( CVE-2025-24061 ) allowed to bypass the important Mark-of-the-Web security mechanism, receiving a high threat rating of 7.8 points on the CVSS scale. The second ( CVE-2025-24071 ) with a rating of 6.5 opened the possibility of attacks through interface substitution in Windows Explorer. In the Microsoft database, the author of the findings is registered under the name “SkorikARI with SkorikARI”, but is better known online as EncryptHub.
Ten years ago, he left his native Kharkov and settled on the coast of Romania. There, the future hacker independently studied computer science through online courses and tried to find work in the IT field. After several unsuccessful attempts to make money on bug bounty programs, he switched to creating malware.
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