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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?
espionage
Misbehavior before the enemy
Aiding the enemy
Can under the UCMJ have the death penalty.
So don't come back
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.
Rarely does anything get published about it...but you just read something about it. Makes sense. I'm pretty sure Monica Witt is just some loon. Plenty of those.
You mean Booz Allen Hamilton?
An even better cover is to not be mentioned at all. Only a TV spy would want the notoriety, or narcissists thinking like TV drama is acceptable in real life.
If people's lives are on the line, you don't act like that. You'd have to be insane to do so. ffs
Yes. Serial killer always have three names.
I hate fuckin' millenials too. Strutting around like they rent the place.
What I think is interesting is to compare her Air Force service photo to the photo of her circulating in the news stories. She is a Texan of German extraction, and in her service portraits he looks white. In the photo used in the news stories she is wearing a hijab and is very brown.
I find this strange. There are a dozen or so ethnic groups in Iran, some of whom are dark-skinned, some of whom are about the same color as this woman. Tehran has about the same latitude as Oklahoma city, so if she was brought in Texas and had the genetics to turn brown while living in Iran, she ought to have been brown all her life.
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drone strike.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Exactly. She is living in a country where women are second class citizens. Living with restrictions imposed by insecure and emasculated men living in the ME. Men that demonstrate how powerful and manly they are by beating down their women every chance the get.
She will also be kept under surveillance for the rest of her life. She will be living in a country where the US could contract out her elimination by the highly competent Israelis. Israelis have been killing people, sabotaging critical infrastructure, blowing up military installations, and stealing state documents from downtown Tehran with impunity. I wouldn't be surprised if there were at least 1 Israel agent in Iran's Guardian Council.
Hillary Rodham Clinton