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Hacker Group That Hit Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Intensifies Attacks

Posted by samzenpus on from the turning-things-up dept.

itwbennett writes: The hacker group, which security researchers from Kaspersky Lab and Symantec call Wild Neutron or Morpho, has broken into the networks of over 45 large companies since 2012. After the 2013 attacks against Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft were highly publicized, the group went underground and temporarily halted its activity. However, its attacks resumed in 2014 and have since intensified, according to separate reports released Wednesday by Kaspersky Lab and Symantec.

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  1. It might help if courts took hacking seriously by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But in some countries it seems to me its still treated as vaguely harmless probably because the judiciary don't really have a clue.

    Need an example? Finland recently gave Lizard Squard hacker Julius Kivimaik a 2 years suspended. I mean he only hacked 50K systems (yes 50,000) and made a hoax bomb threat to a plane. You have to wonder if the judge in that courtroom was asleep through the prosecution case.

    With lenient treatment like that its no surprise smart (in a narrow sphere) but socially dysfunctional teens keep doing this shit.