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Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign

The following article by Raphael Satter, Jeff Donn and Nataliya Vasilyeva was posted on the Associated Press website December 22, 2017:

PARIS (AP) — Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web.

Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus. Now he’d been hacked. Continue reading “Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign”

Cybersecurity firm finds evidence that Russian military unit was behind DNC hack

The following article by Ellen Nakashima was posted on the Washington Post website December 22, 2016:

The Post’s Ellen Nakashima goes over the events, and discusses the two hacker groups responsible. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post)

A cybersecurity firm has uncovered strong proof of the tie between the group that hacked the Democratic National Committee and Russia’s military intelligence arm — the primary agency behind the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election.

The firm CrowdStrike linked malware used in the DNC intrusion to malware used to hack and track an Android phone app used by the Ukrainian army in its battle against pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine from late 2014 through 2016. Continue reading “Cybersecurity firm finds evidence that Russian military unit was behind DNC hack”