Reuters: U.S. authorities charge Russian spies, hackers in huge Yahoo hack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday charged two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers with masterminding the 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts, the first time the U.S. government has criminally charged Russian spies for cyber offences.
The charges came amid a swirl of controversies relating to alleged Kremlin-backed hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible links between Russian figures and associates of U.S. President Donald Trump. This has given rise to uncertainty about whether Trump is willing to respond forcefully to any action by Moscow in cyberspace and elsewhere.
The 47-count Justice Department indictment included charges of conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, wire fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identify theft. It painted a picture of the Russian security services working hand-in-hand with cyber criminals, who helped spies further their intelligence goals in exchange for using the same exploits to make money.
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WNU Editor: Russia is denying these claims .... Yahoo hack: Russia’s FSB not involved in cyberattacks, Kremlin says (RT). More here .... Russia denies Yahoo hack involvement (BBC).
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2 comments:
Not Russian hackers then? :D
"EXPOSE FSB’S INTERNAL SPYING
As these descriptions make clear, some of these targets are potentially well-connected people in Russia: a Russian Deputy Consul General, someone from Department K, the office of the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation, the Chairman of a Russian Federation Council committee (who also happens to be a businessman). Perhaps those people were targeted for sound political reasons — perhaps counterintelligence or corruption, for example. Or perhaps FSB was just trying to gain leverage in the political games of Russia."
https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03/15/the-yahoo-indictment-erectile-dysfunction-marketing-plus-stuff-nsa-does-all-the-time/
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