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- Got a grudge? Police just shut down biggest hackers-for-hire platform
Tim Johnson, McClatchy, April 25, 2018, Updated April 26, 2018 The worldwide— and illegal — cyberattack-for-hire business flourishes. The hackers-for-hire flood a website with malicious traffic and knock it off line. Fed up with such malignant attacks, law enforcement officials around the world took action, announcing Wednesday that authorities in 12 countries, including the United States, had seized servers and arrested four top administrators of webstresser.org, crippling what is believed to be the most successful of the cyberattack-for-hire platforms.
- The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
By Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley , Bloomberg Businessweek, Oct. 4, 2018 The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.
- U.S. blames ‘massive’ hack of research data on Iran
Jon Cohen, Science 30 Mar 2018: 359(6383):1450 A “massive and brazen cyberassault” revealed last week by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) showed that academics are easy targets for hacking. In “one of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns” it has ever prosecuted, DOJ alleges that nine Iranians working on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stole data from 7998 professors at 320 universities around the world over the past 5 years.