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FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the strange-confessions dept.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for Motherboard: The feds warned that "a group of malicious cyber actors," whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, "have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks" since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard. The alert, which is also available online, shows that foreign government hackers are still successfully hacking and stealing data from US government's servers, their activities going unnoticed for years. [...] In the alert, the FBI lists a long series of websites used as command and control servers to launch phishing attacks "in furtherance of computer network exploitation (CNE) activities [read: hacking] in the United States and abroad since at least 2011."

3 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Mysterious? Really? by Kinthelt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't figure out wHo would want to have InterNal file Access.

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    "Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb." - Dark Helmet (Spaceballs)

  2. Re:If the FrostyBI are complaining... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I really wish you'd said "If the FrostyBI are pissed..." because it would have been such a lovely First Post pun.

  3. Re:I think they are referring to the nine horsemen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    and the other two agencies none are permitted to know about

    Don't worry, we both know about you...