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Game of Thrones Hacker Worked With US Defector To Hack Air Force Employees of Iran (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed today espionage-related charges against a former U.S. Air Force service member who defected to Iran and helped the country's hackers target her former Air Force colleagues. Besides charges and an arrest warrant issued in the name of the former USAF service member, the DOJ also indicted four Iranian hackers who supposedly carried out the cyber-attacks acting on information provided by Witt. The most notable of the four Iranian hackers is Behzad Mesri, who U.S. authorities also charged in November 2017 with hacking HBO, stealing scripts for unaired episodes of season 6 of the hit series Game Of Thrones TV show, and later attempting to extort HBO execs for $6 million.
But at the heart of today's indictment stands Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, a former US Air Force counter-intelligence special agent specialized in Middle East operations, who served for the Air Force between 1997 and 2008, and later worked as a DOD contractor until 2010 --including for Booz Allen Hamilton, the same defense company where Edward Snowden worked. [...] The DOJ claims Witt has been working ever since with IRGC hacking units to craft and fine-tune cyber-operations against her former Air Force colleagues, some of whom she knew personally. [...] All the five suspects named in the indictment are still at large, believed to be located in Iran. The DOJ says Witt now goes by the names of Fatemah Zahra or Narges Witt.
But at the heart of today's indictment stands Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, a former US Air Force counter-intelligence special agent specialized in Middle East operations, who served for the Air Force between 1997 and 2008, and later worked as a DOD contractor until 2010 --including for Booz Allen Hamilton, the same defense company where Edward Snowden worked. [...] The DOJ claims Witt has been working ever since with IRGC hacking units to craft and fine-tune cyber-operations against her former Air Force colleagues, some of whom she knew personally. [...] All the five suspects named in the indictment are still at large, believed to be located in Iran. The DOJ says Witt now goes by the names of Fatemah Zahra or Narges Witt.
Can't they just be bad with one name?
The world of espionage is fishy as fuck and cyber stuff more so. Highly possible the whole thing is concocted as cover for agents placed inside Iran. What better cover than to be wanted criminals from the government you are actually working for. Real double agents usually just get a bullet in the head or some other less messy method. Rarely does anything get published about it...
I know this is how the link also led but WTF?
... enjoy your never ending life in Iran, you can never leave.
WTF does that even mean? From what I gather she was an USAF member who defected to Iran and hacked the US with some Iranian dudes.
You mean Booz Allen Hamilton?
Yes. Serial killer always have three names.
See subject & "Remember what we told you: You keep your eyes open - they're everywhere..."
* TRAITORS (like this stupid cunt)!
APK
P.S.=> Unbelievable, the stupid cunt (I hope she's a 'double-agent' to INFILTRATE them & not a TRUE traitor to my nation)... apk
Ted Bundy? Martin Bryant? Dexter? :-)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims since I couldn't think of any more (and I'm a bit dubious about the last one).
PressTV has real news and uncensored comments too.
drone strike.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Russian XAKEPC, Iranian hackers, Romanian hackers, hungarian hackersz...
Even Mulder could come up with better explanations than the so-called "justice system" of the US.
It is all about creating fear and confrontation so that the citizenry doesn't ask too many questions about the sad state of the union.
Another quote from BLADE 1: "You, BETTER WAKE UP - the world you live in is just a sugarcoated topping: There IS ANOTHER WORLD BENEATH it - the REAL world & IF you want to survive it, you'd better LEARN to PULL the TRIGGER!"
APK
P.S.=> Of course, you're PROBABLY the scumbags I hear about from Field Grade Officers in the PENTAGON (daily whom I speak to) who tell me about WHIMPS that can't even do 1 PULLUP on physical tests (fuck - might as well have an OLD DUDE like ME defend this country) OR WORSE? The SHITBRAINS who "champion China" & YET WEAR A U.S. MILITARY UNIFORM? WTF - FUCK YOUR KIND, weezil traitors... fuck you! apk
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cou...
Evil looks ugly.
Can't they just be bad with one name?
Creimette is bad with 57 names on /.
Media does that as a courtesy to people who share the same first and last name.
Dear AC poster - I guess for Slashdot, ya gotta lead with game of thrones, but the most material info is she revealed an American under cover agent, and helped spear phish her former colleagues.
And you lead with game of thrones? Really? If it's news for nerds, at least include spear phishing?
There's an anti-Iran conference in Warsaw (I think Russia was not invited..), Israeli threats but you get these every other day, twitter accounts calling for regime change and blockade, and even a devastating terrorist attack that just took place in Iran killing 27 people (but the West seemingly doesn't give a shit when this happens, unlike when there's one dead three wounded in Europe by a lone man)
So this story is obviously part of a media campaign. It doesn't need to be any profound at all, most people can't or won't be arsed. "Iran bad!" suffices.
For anyone that would care, this sends a message : do you have any sympathies with Iran? have visited or want to visit? beware! and think twice, we're watching you.
Hillary Rodham Clinton