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Kremlin's increasingly aggressive hackers have reached across the globe to hit targets with everything from simple phishing schemes to worms built from leaked NSA zero day vulnerabilities. Now, law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have detailed another, far more hands-on tactic: Snooping on Wi-Fi from a vehicle parked a few feet away from a target office-or even from a laptop inside their hotel.
Not long ago, lawmakers might have been wary about showcasing the work of hackers who specialize in penetrating voting equipment. But on Thursday, organizers from the Def Con Voting Village - a collection of security researchers who hack election systems in hopes of making them more secure - received a warm welcome on Capitol Hill.
Three young computer hackers, including a Louisiana man, whose "botnet" known as Mirai virtually paralyzed chunks of the internet two years ago have received light sentences after helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity. Dalton Norman, 22, of Metairie, Louisiana; Paras Jha, 22, of Fanwood, New Jersey; and Josiah White, 21, of Washington, Pennsylvania, were sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation and 62-1/2 workweeks of community service in U.S. District Court in Anchorage.
A new report by congressional investigators details how hackers broke into Equifax last year in a breach that exposed the financial information of more than 145 million Americans. The lawmakers who requested the report say they will press the Trump administration on the lack of enforcement actions against the giant credit-reporting agency.
The Russian hackers indicted by the US special prosecutor last month have spent years trying to steal the private correspondence of some of the world's most senior Orthodox Christian figures, The Associated Press has found, illustrating the high stakes as Kiev and Moscow wrestle over the religious future of Ukraine. The targets included top aides to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, who often is described as the first among equals of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christian leaders.
A hacking group linked to Iran may have targeted British universities as part of a campaign to steal student credentials, cyber security experts have said. Researchers from the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit said the group, called Colbalt Dickens, was "likely responsible" for an attack on 76 universities in 14 countries, including the UK.
Some 13 weeks till Election Day, and "The warning lights are blinking red," says the U.S. director of national intelligence. "I cannot emphasize enough the vulnerability," says Sen. Marco Rubio.
Three Ukrainians have been arrested for hacking more than 100 US companies and stealing millions of credit and debit card numbers, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Dmytro Fedorov, 44, Fedir Hladyr, 33, and Andrii Kolpakov, 30, are high-ranking members of an "international cybercrime group" called "FIN7" which had dozens of members around the world, the department said in a statement.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who is up for re-election this year, says Russian hackers tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate her Senate computer network. She says she will not be intimidated.
Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri says Russian hackers tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate her Senate computer network, raising questions about the extent to which Russia will try to interfere in the 2018 elections. McCaskill, who is up for re-election this year, confirmed the attempted hack after The Daily Beast website reported that Russia's GRU intelligence agency tried to break into the senator's computers in August 2017.
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, one of the most vulnerable Democrats running for reelection this year, was targeted by Russian government hackers who sought but failed to compromise her Senate computer network. "Russia continues to engage in cyber warfare against our democracy," McCaskill said in a press release Thursday evening.
Sen. Claire McCaskill says she was target of Russian hacking att - KXXV-TV News Channel 25 - Central Texas News and Weather for Waco, Temple, Killeen Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri believes there's been an attempt by Russian hackers to infiltrate her 2018 campaign, she said following a media report on . McCaskill, a two-term Democrat running for re-election, acknowledged the hacking attempt to The Daily Beast after the outlet discovered it through a "forensic analysis."
Russian hacking and election meddling "is an attack on all of us," Rep. Trey Gowdy told CBS's "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan on Sunday. "Democrats and Republicans are free to fight among and with themselves, but that fight ends at the border.
President Donald Trump on Saturday scolded the Obama administration for not responding aggressively enough to Russian hacking of Democratic targets in the 2016 U.S. election - cyberattacks underpinning the indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers. Trump's first response to special counsel Robert Mueller's initial charges against Russian government officials for interfering in American politics came in tweets the president posted while at his golf resort in Scotland, two days before a high-stakes summit in Finland with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
President Donald Trump, at his luxury seaside golf course here, turned his eye to domestic politics Saturday morning -- attacking former President Barack Obama, questioning the FBI, torching CNN and bragging about his 2016 win. With country roads to the golf course cordoned off, and aides mum about the president's activities on a sunny Saturday morning, he gave a lens into his mind around 11 a.m. local time.
The previous week, Katenberg's hacking crew had been bombarding the Hillary Clinton campaign's email accounts with fake Google warnings, trying to get her Brooklyn-based staff to panic, enter their passwords and open their digital lives to Russia's intelligence services. But the going was tough.
On a late July day in 2016, Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president, stood at a lectern in Florida, next to an American flag, and urged a U.S. adversary to become involved in the election campaign and find tens of thousands of emails wiped from the server of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. "Russia, if you're listening," he said at a news conference at one of his resorts, "I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
The previous week, Katenberg's hacking crew had been bombarding the Hillary Clinton campaign's email accounts with fake Google warnings, trying to get her Brooklyn-based staff to panic, enter their passwords and open their digital lives to Russia's intelligence services. But the going was tough.
Twelve Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Party and released tens of thousands of private communications in a sweeping conspiracy by the Kremlin to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election, according to an indictment announced days before President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The indictment represents special counsel Robert Mueller's first charges against Russian government officials for interfering in American politics, an effort U.S. intelligence agencies say was aimed at helping the Trump campaign and harming his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The previous week, Katenberg's hacking crew had been bombarding the Hillary Clinton campaign's email accounts with fake Google warnings, trying to get her Brooklyn-based staff to panic, enter their passwords and open their digital lives to Russia's intelligence services.