Russian hackers targeted more than 200 journalists globally

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press




By RAPHAEL SATTER, JEFF DONN and NATALIYA VASILYEVA
32 minutes ago

PARIS (AP) — Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web.

Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus. Now he’d been hacked.

“These were very personal messages,” Lobkov said in a recent interview, describing a frantic call to his lawyer in an abortive effort to stop the spread of nearly 300 pages of Facebook correspondence, including sexually explicit messages. Even two years later, he said, “it’s a very traumatic story.”

The Associated Press found that Lobkov was targeted by the hacking group known as Fancy Bear in March 2015, nine months before his messages were leaked. He was one of at least 200 journalists, publishers and bloggers targeted by the group as early as mid-2014 and as recently as a few months ago.

Read more: https://apnews.com/c3b26c647e794073b7626befa146caad

[Hugin]

1. I doubt Americans (particularly Conservative Republicans) will ever acknowledge the scale of cyber

attack the world and the United States has experienced. Resulting in a resurgence of the Fascist Right and the theft of power in the US by radicals and corporatists oligarchs. Yet, there are those who still deny this is Treason.