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posted by martyb on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the hack-this dept.

The New York Times reports In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking :

KIEV, Ukraine — The hacker, known only by his online alias "Profexer," kept a low profile. He wrote computer code alone in an apartment and quietly sold his handiwork on the anonymous portion of the internet known as the Dark Web. Last winter, he suddenly went dark entirely.

Profexer's posts, already accessible only to a small band of fellow hackers and cybercriminals looking for software tips, blinked out in January — just days after American intelligence agencies publicly identified a program he had written as one tool used in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.

But while Profexer's online persona vanished, a flesh-and-blood person has emerged: a fearful man who the Ukrainian police said turned himself in early this year, and has now become a witness for the F.B.I.

It's an in-depth review of several people, hacking groups, Russian organizations, and delves into hidden sites where malware can be bought and sold. In this case, it is claimed that Profexer wrote a program to exfiltrate information from a hacked machine, made a free copy available, but charged for updates/training. The claim is that Russia made use of his program, among others, and then practiced using it on Ukraine. Images of servers used in Ukraine voting are being reviewed.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday August 17 2017, @01:40PM (2 children)

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Thursday August 17 2017, @01:40PM (#555286) Journal

    Flamebait? The discussion was whether or not releasing the DNC emails qualifies as "election hacking." I countered with a slightly different (but related) and equally controversial strategy that fed into Trump's victory. If the email release is "hacking" then this almost certainly is. I included a link to an article from a respectable news source to back up my assertion. I fail to see the flamebait.

    Did I touch a nerve? Could it be that Trump's defenders are as thin-skinned as he is?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:10PM (#555386)

    Mods have turned to absolute garbage. Pay no mind.

  • (Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Monday August 21 2017, @03:15AM

    by Fluffeh (954) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 21 2017, @03:15AM (#556856) Journal

    It sometimes takes a while for mods to be corrected from obvious shills. They normally come good in the end though.