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Four Men Charged With Hacking 500M Yahoo Accounts

March 15, 2017 admin Alexsey Alexseyevich Belan, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Dmitry Dokuchaev, Forb, Igor Sushchin, Karim Baratov, Karim Taloverov, Other, Yahoo hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:49:07 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four men accused of hacking into a half-billion Yahoo email accounts. Two of the men named in the indictments worked for a unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) that serves as the FBI’s point of contact in Moscow on cybercrime cases. Here’s a look at the accused, starting with a 22-year-old who apparently did not try to hide his tracks. According to a press release put out by the Justice Department, among those indicted was Karim Baratov (a.k.a. Kay, Karim Taloverov), a Canadian and Kazakh national who lives in Canada. Baratov is accused of being hired by the two FSB officer defendants in this case — Dmitry Dokuchaev, 33, and Igor Sushchin, 43 — to hack into the email accounts of thousands of individuals. According to a press release put out by the Justice Department, among those indicted was Karim Baratov (a.k.a. Kay, Karim Taloverov), a Canadian and Kazakh national who lives in Canada. Baratov is accused of being hired by the two FSB officer defendants in this case — Dmitry Dokuchaev, 33, and Igor Sushchin, 43 — to hack into the email accounts of thousands of individuals.

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WikiLeaks Dumps Docs on CIA’s Hacking Tools

March 8, 2017 admin Bloomberg, Bugcrowd, Casey Ellis, Center for Cyber Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Cisco, Craig Dods, Edward Snowden, Equation Group, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Juniper, Leonid Bershidsky, national security agency, NSA, Open Whisper Systems, Other, Samsung, signal, smart TVs, The New York Times, The Shadow Brokers, US CIA, vault 7, Weeping Angel, WhatsApp, WikiLeaks, Zero-Day

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:39:11 +0000

WikiLeaks on Tuesday dropped one of its most explosive word bombs ever: A secret trove of documents apparently stolen from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing methods of hacking everything from smart phones and TVs to compromising Internet routers and computers. KrebsOnSecurity is still digesting much of this fascinating data cache, but here are some first impressions based on what I’ve seen so far.