According to a new report, Russian hackers—likely associated with GRU military intelligence—have mounted a highly-sophisticated cyberattack on the end-to-end encrypted accounts of journalists covering the country's activities.
boasts the protection of Switzerland's strict privacy laws as well as end-to-end encryption and anonymized accounts. According to theProtonMail's CEO Andy Yen told the FT that the hackers"knew in advance exactly who they wanted to go after. Our research shows that this was a highly targeted operation."
Higgins and his team were heavily involved in linking MH17 to Russia's 53rd Anti Aircraft Missile brigade. The Boeing 777 was downed by a missile strike, killing all 298 people on board. Bellingcat then made the link all the way to "senior officers of the Russian Ministry of Defense and its military intelligence agency, the GRU." The same team identified the GRU officers allegedly responsible for the The hack reported by theworked through bogus Swiss domains that replicated ProtonMail's interface and then accessed the real site in the background in real-time to"trick users into giving up their two-factor authentication codes.
The end-to-end security of messaging platforms has been under scrutiny in recent weeks, with security agencies in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere complaining that the lack of backdoors left investigations"in the dark." Earlier in the week, U.S.
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