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

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."

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  1. Re:This is why... by SecurityGuy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nobody knows Hillary's home server hasn't been hacked. All that we know is that whatever logging they were doing didn't show evidence of hacking. All that tells you is that if it was hacked, it wasn't done by a complete incompetent.

  2. Re: This is why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except that awkward moment everyone forgets the server was found because guccifer got in sharing screen caps.

    http://www.mrctv.org/blog/update-hillary-s-secret-email-revealed-romanian-hacker-had-its-own-internet-server