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Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project and more

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia’s national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency — including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic.

The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group of hackers going by the name of 0v1ru$ hacked into SyTech’s Active Directory server from where they gained access to the company’s entire IT network, including a JIRA instance.

Read more on ZDNet.  This is really a made-for-TV type of story.

Category: Business SectorHackNon-U.S.Subcontractor

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