Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Police forces in Spain have raided several suspects linked to a cyberattack against the the union of the Catalan police Mossos D’Esquadra on Tuesday. That attack was carried out in May of last year by Phineas Fisher, a hacker who gained notoriety for exposing the secrets of spyware vendors FinFisher and Hacking Team. Several Spanish newspapers reported news…
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MLB fines Cardinals $2 million for computer hack
Brian Feldt reports: Major League Baseball on Monday afternoon ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to pay $2 million and turn over two 2017 draft selections to the Houston Astros as a result of a former Cardinals employee hacking the Astros’ computer system. The league’s decision also permanently banned Chris Correa, who was fired by the Cardinals in July 2015…
How Russian Hackers Became a Kremlin Headache
Leonid Bershidsky reports: The recent arrests of Russian cybersecurity officials in Moscow likely had little to do with last year’s U.S. election. The story behind them, however, sheds some light on the relationship between the Russian government and the hackers who work for it. The web of names and their interconnections can be a little hard to…
Hackers hit D.C. police closed-circuit camera network, city officials disclose
Clarence Williams reports: Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump’s inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts, according to the police and the city’s technology office. City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15. The…
Held in Prague, Nikulin at center of ‘intense’ US-Russia tug of war
Roger Tait and Julian Borger report: An alleged computer hacker being held in the Czech Republic is at the centre of an international legal tussle between the United States and Russia amid lingering disquiet over Moscow’s alleged interference in the recent US presidential election. Read more on The Guardian. Considering that Interpol had picked him up…
Rogue Tweeters in Government Could Be Prosecuted as Hackers
AP reports: Who are the federal government’s rogue tweeters, using official agency social media accounts to poke President Donald Trump? Are these acts of civil disobedience, or federal crimes? The online campaign began with unauthorized tweets – on subjects such as climate change inconsistent with Trump’s campaign statements and policies – that have been mostly…