Hungarian journalists hacked by Russian group of hackers
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Many Hungarian journalists got a warning message from Google that an attack had been set to have access to their messages. Supposedly, APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, was behind the attack. It is a Russian group of hackers, connected to the secret service. Their global campaign had thousands of people as their target, among them journalists and civil activists.
When the victims tried to log in to their email accounts, Google showed an alert of a “government-supported attack”. The chance that attackers working for a state body wanted to hack the accounts were high, but fortunately, the attack was blocked. The identity of the hackers and the methods that were used were not disclosed because otherwise, the hackers would have found out how Google detected and blocked their attack. This could help them change their strategy, writes atlatszo.hu.
Shane Huntley, the leader of Google’s security team, Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that on Wednesday-Thursday, an unusually high number of hacks were detected, and they alerted about 14,000 users. This does not mean that all users were hacked if a warning was sent, and the hack was probably blocked. Later, APT28 was named as the hackers. They used phishing to get access to the emails.
Were the journalist hacked? probably but I am not buying this story. If anyone hacked the journalist it would have been the US CIA or the Israeli Mossad. Russia stands to gain nothing by such a blatant act that would get found out. This seems like an attempt to try and drive a wedge into the relations of Hungary with Russia. When computer hackers get to playing around they can make an attack seem like it came from anywhere on the planet.
Who has been on a global attack against Russia the past few years? This act has USA written all over it.
Far-left Google is not a reliable news source. Fake-news. I agree with Mike that there is no benefit for Russia to hack Hungarian journalists. We are pretty sure that they work for Soros. Assuming that they did what of it?
Hussein Obama had Angela Merkel under surveillance. Now, that was something -:)