Sentences with phrase «cyber hacking tools»

The Latest on a federal investigation to determine whether a former CIA employee jailed on child pornography charges is also tied to a massive leak of cyber hacking tools (all times local):

The FBI is investigating whether a former CIA employee jailed on child pornography charges is also tied to a massive leak of cyber hacking tools.

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U.S. intelligence agents, lured by the possibility of recovering hacking tools stolen from the NSA, paid a Russian intermediary an installment of $ 100,000 for the alleged cyber weapons last year.

The US could retaliate against Russia in the form of a military offensive, shutting down specific portions of its cyber capabilities or stealing and publishing hacking tools used by Russian intelligence — much like the Russia - linked group the Shadow Brokers did with US cyberweapons in 2016.

Past cyber attacks on scores of organizations around the world were conducted with top - secret hacking tools that were exposed recently by the Web publisher WikiLeaks, the security researcher Symantec said on Monday.

Swedish - American cyber security firm Recorded Future said they have «a high degree of certainty» that the arrested Belarussian is «Ar3s», a prominent hacker in the Russian speaking cybercrime underground since 2004, who the firm has identified as the creator of the Andromeda botnet, among other hacking tools.

A longtime intelligence contractor with expertise in U.S. hacking tools told Reuters the documents included correct «cover» terms describing active cyber programs.

Days ago South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) announced that it too had purchased hacking tools from cyber security pariahs, the Italian Hackinhacking tools from cyber security pariahs, the Italian HackingHacking Team.